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...supervised their evacuation, women and children first. The ship's steel lifeboats, with a total capacity of 874, were lowered in minutes. While crewmen remained behind to search all cabins, nearby freighters picked up the passengers to transport them to the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo...
...passengers died of heart attacks, but all 494 others aboard (including 246 crewmen) survived. The last to leave his vessel was Captain Thoresen, murmuring "I lost a good friend in that ship." When he arrived at Guantánamo, his waiting passengers, many of them still in pajamas, greeted him with round after round of cheers. Not one of them had even...
...former Governor of North Dakota who became one of the first high Government officials to recognize the unlimited possibilities of desalting sea water, invested $150,000 in federal funds for a pilot desalinization project that was the forerunner of the multimillion-dollar plant currently in use at Guantánamo; of cancer; in Fargo...
Busy with the crisis in Birmingham last week, President Kennedy switched on a TV set to catch the news. Up came the face of a newscaster, saying: "The Administration today denied charges by a Texas Congressman that two Marine officers at the Guantánamo Naval Station shot and killed Vice President Lyndon Johnson during a tour of defense installations and secretly buried his body on the base...
Cuba. naval base, held by the U.S. under a perpetual lease, negotiated in 1903 and reaffirmed in 1934. It grants the U.S. "complete jurisdiction and control." In the nuclear age, Guantánamo no longer has any great strategic value, but with its excellent anchorage it is a valued warm-water training base- and as long as Castro controls Cuba, the base will have a special value as a free world outpost, a reminder of the U.S.'s proximity and power...