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...Santo Domingo (known for 25 years as Ciudad Trujillo), a crowd of youths clutched the corners of a Dominican flag and raced through the streets, shouting "Liberty by Christmas!" They did not have that long to wait. For the crowds that gathered excitedly on waterfront George Washington Avenue to watch the U.S. missile cruiser Little Rock and a destroyer escort patrolling just beyond the three-mile limit, liberty had already arrived. The Trujillo regime came tumbling down in the Dominican Republic last week, and a chartered DC-6 bore off to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 29 members of the Trujillo family...
From his show business experience, Macapagal earned enough money to go back to school, and soon a Pampanga philanthropist relieved him of all worry by offering to finance his education at the University of Santo Tomas. Graduating in 1936, Macapagal scored the highest grades of all candidates in the bar exams and was soon a legal assistant to Philippine President Manuel Quezon. During the war, Macapagal quit as law professor at Santo Tomas to serve as an intelligence agent with the anti-Japanese underground...
...project will analyze the Guayana region at the Caroni and Orinoco Rivers, an area of rich resources. The new city, to be called Santo Tomas de Guayana, is epected to be ready for a population...
...World headquarters on Española, the Caribbean island now divided into Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Then, according to the legend, he added: "Here I will be buried." And there in 1898 his remains were enshrined in a new marble tomb in the cathedral at Santo Domingo, which is now called Ciudad Trujillo. That same year the navigator's descendants also buried his remains back in Spain in the family plot in Seville. The question ever since: Which tomb has the tibia...
Back & Forth. While in Spain, Goff also found that not one of the bones in Seville was duplicated in Ciudad Trujillo. His tentative conclusion: Columbus died in 1506 in Valladolid, Spain; his remains were buried in a monastery near Seville; soon after 1541 the bones were shipped to Santo Domingo; rediscovered towards the end of the 18th century, the bones were apparently split up-some being sent to Havana, then back to Seville, the rest remaining in the cathedral; both were buried anew...