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...police headquarters. At the same time they tossed grenades and gasoline bombs on the building from a nearby rooftop and burned it down, while ammunition popped inside. For a time the attackers roamed the area freely, looting a hardware store for weapons. At other towns-Holguin, Guantánamo, Cienfuegos, Santa Clara-other Castro-men rebelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Hit-Run Revolt | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...British Empire's ties that bind loosened a little more last week. Ceylon, smallest of the dominions, decided not to fly the British Union Jack or to play God Save the Queen at official functions. Ceylonese have a flag of their own and their own Anthem, Namo Namo Matha (Hail, Hail, Mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEYLON: God Save the Queen | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

...Navy's big bases now were in Norfolk and Guantánamo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Power Shift | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

After experiments in St. Louis, a pilot station was set up at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in 1944. A battery of three seismographs was arranged in a three-cornered pattern. These indicators measured the strength and nearness of the tremors set up by several full-fledged hurricanes which roared past Cuba that season. Results were good. This year the Navy established two more stations, one in Florida, one in Puerto Rico, to keep a triangulated finger squarely on storms in the Caribbean hurricane belt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Seisms & Sferics | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

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