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...began with a couple of lobster boats-the Dos Hermanos and the Blanchie III-chugging from Key West and returning with 48 refugees. Then a hulking shrimper named Big Baby made the 110-mile trip, coming back with 200 people; it was quickly followed by Lucy, a creaky lobster boat that carried 70 people huddled on its deck. Suddenly last week, the Straits of Florida were filled with a huge makeshift flotilla, ranging from leaky skiffs to sleek schooners, that sailed from south Florida to the Cuban port of Mariel and returned home crammed with jubilant Cuban exiles. "I never...
...Deux. Undaunted, Tito and Dame Margot a few days later assembled Nola, Elaine and a second shrimper, Mary Ann, to raise the sunken arms. As they brought up the boat, Tito talked enthusiastically of his plan to attack a National Guard post. Mary Ann headed for port, Elaine took the outboard in tow, and Tito headed for a secluded island to finish the arms transfer undisturbed except for the pop of Dame Margot's flashbulbs. But the spoilsport crew of the Mary Ann, reaching port, spilled the whole plan to the National Guard...
Names. In St. Augustine, Fla., saying "It costa me ten bucks but I like mucha better," Shrimper Tomas DiGrande got permission to change the name of his boat from Il Duce to Diana. In Chicago, House Painter Samuel Joshua Hitler asked to have his name changed to Gitler. In Hartford, Conn., Arnold Alvin De Ribbentrop, asked to be called Robinson...