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More than 1,500 miles from landfall at San Salvador, the caravels came upon smooth seas, drizzling rains and a whale. Whales had always been seen close to shore for the same good reason boatswain birds had: men had never sailed far enough to see them elsewhere. On Sept. 25, after sandpipers and a dove-supposedly sure harbingers of land-were reported, an island was "sighted" and Columbus knelt down and gave thanks to the Lord. The "island" was a cloud on the horizon...
Beacon Lights. Two hours before midnight on Oct. 11, Columbus saw from the poop of his Santa Maria a far-off light waxing & waning in the dark. Searching for an explanation, Berrill points out that the light could not have come from San Salvador. That island was too far off (about 50 miles) when Columbus sang out. Nor could it have come from a native canoe. Berrill thinks it came from a colony of 1-2 in. sea worms which live among the rocky reefs of the Bahamas and shed their eggs near the sea's surface with...
...relaxed way since he succeeded ex-Dictator Tiburcio Carias 21 month ago. "We might not go very far," Gálvez once said, "but we won't go very far wrong, either." He has been getting along well with his neighbors in Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador, but Tegucigalpa buzzed this week with outspoken if undocumented suspicions that Guatemala might have financed the recent mischiefmaking. Last week, when the Guatemalan embassy requested safe conduct out of the country for the two Hondurans implicated in the plot, Gálvez smiled sweetly and answered: "Just be patient; meantime, give them...
When the World Bank promised last December to lend $12,500,000 for a big hydroelectric project on the Rio Lempa, Salvadoreans agreed to raise another $5,006,000 themselves. To the government of tiny El Salvador (pop. 2,500,000), which had never tried it before, floating an internal loan looked like a precarious business. At its request, the World Bank sent in a bond-marketing expert, balding, energetic Norman M. Tucker...
...gold coins and large bills, a study showed, more than half was being hoarded. Since the Twenty Families hoard U.S. dollars if they hoard any currency, all those colones must be in the mattresses and buried tin cans of other Salvadoreans. "There is a middle class in El Salvador," said Tucker, "and I am prepared to prove...