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...celebrating Honduras' 136-year-old independence from Spain, U.S. Ambassador Whiting Willauer, 50, was just sitting down to lunch at the. embassy one day last week when he was summoned to the telephone. It was the governor of the province. At a treacherous swimming hole in the muddy Rio Quaccerique, just ten miles from town, a young swimmer had dived, struck a rock and disappeared under the swift currents. Could the ambassador be of any assistance...
...such a request before, the ambassador rounded up his equipment and loaded it into a police car that appeared out front. During the 15-minute ride, he shucked the striped pants and swallow-tailed coat, climbed into trunks. The car reached the spot where the Rio Quaccerique, loaded with silt from surrounding hills, whirls through a narrow gorge and widens to a rock-filled pool 100 ft. wide and 40 ft. deep. The ambassador was slightly worried; his best skin-diving equipment was still in Nantucket, where he had spent the summer. But he pulled on an ill-fitting tank...
Unscheduled Chores. Last March he learned that being the only proficient diver in the entire country let him in for chores the State Department had never visualized. He was called out to the Rio Quaccerique hole when a twelve-year-old boy* lost his grip on his inner tube and disappeared under the swirling currents. After an hour's search he found the body lodged between some underwater rocks...
Since the Rio Quaccerique hole is thronged by picnickers and swimmers-mainly because there is nothing better near Tegucigalpa-Hondurans may well have to call on Willauer again. "It isn't exactly in the line of ambassadorial duties," said he last week, "but it is my duty as a human being...
Dividends. For the prospectors who uncovered its wealth, Ambrosia Lake has already started to issue dividends. Lou Lothmann sold out his original interest in the Dysart land to Rio de Oro Uranium Mines, Inc. for $200,000 in stock. Stella Dysart sold part of her share to Rio de Oro for $300,000 in stock, still holds a 12?% royalty interest...