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...control of the line by financial troubles in 1950, he remained as president and vice-chairman of the board until three years ago, when he became Ambassador to Honduras. A powerfully built six-footer who once played fullback for Princeton, Willauer found few facilities for recreation in Tegucigalpa, took up skindiving to keep himself in trim. In the blue depths off Honduras' Caribbean coast, he hunted unsuccessfully for sunken pirate ships, learned to spear groupers, rockfish and tarpon...
During a routine day as U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, onetime Boston admiralty lawyer Whiting Willauer, 50, got a call for some strictly non-routine work. A twelve-year-old boy had drowned while swimming in a river pool near the capital city of Tegucigalpa, but the body could not be found. Would the Ambassador lend his skindiving equipment to help the search? "Whitey" Willauer gladly complied, but the borrowers did not understand how to use the equipment. The ambassador forthwith donned his own oxygen mask and tank, dived into the 40-ft. depths, found the boy's body...
...Tegucigalpa, Honduras
...cobblestone capital of Tegucigalpa this week, military officers shouldered aside Supreme Chief of State Julio Lozano Diaz. The framed election, which Lozano staged to transform himself into a legal President (TIME, Oct. 22), proved too raw for Honduras' younger, U.S.-trained officers to choke down. All last week Colonel Hector Caraccioli, 34, a U.S.-trained pilot who commands the air force, and Major Roberto Galvez, 31, an engineering officer who studied at Louisiana State University, talked it over with aging (71) Don Julio. Then, lining up support from General Roque J. Rodriguez, 55, commander of the country...
...truck and a jeep full of pith-helmeted cops armed with rifles and Sten guns rolled up to Tegucigalpa's central Prado Hotel on election day last week and glowered at a jeering crowd of demonstrators from the Liberal Party, main opposition to the government of Chief of State Julio Lozano. From behind, some barefoot kids stole up and pelted the policemen with banana and orange peels. Furious, the squad's commander pulled out a pistol and fired into the crowd. A woman screamed. The rest of the cops opened up, mostly firing wild. One man was killed...