Word: thoresen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California, two attractive young San Franciscans named William and Louise Thoresen await trial next week on charges of possessing 70 tons of weapons and ammunition, including a 37-mm. cannon. On the national day of mourning for Robert F. Kennedy, promoters of a Davenport, Iowa, pistol-shooting match decided to go ahead with the event but to observe a moment of silence after each volley, out of respect to the assassinated Senator...
...better listen to this boat drill," Captain Otto Thoresen cautioned passengers. "Next time it might be the real thing." As the 30-minute no-nonsense safety demonstration proceeded, the Viking Princess steamed out of Miami on a seven-day pleasure cruise. Last week, in the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti, the cruise was nearing its end when the real thing did happen. The Princess was ablaze...
Aboard the Princess, a muffled explosion was followed by billowing smoke from the engine room, where efforts to douse the flames proved useless. Under Thoresen's direction, crewmen calmly roused passengers from bed, outfitted them with life jackets and supervised their evacuation, women and children first. The ship's steel lifeboats, with a total capacity of 874, were lowered in minutes. While crewmen remained behind to search all cabins, nearby freighters picked up the passengers to transport them to the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo...
...passengers died of heart attacks, but all 494 others aboard (including 246 crewmen) survived. The last to leave his vessel was Captain Thoresen, murmuring "I lost a good friend in that ship." When he arrived at Guantánamo, his waiting passengers, many of them still in pajamas, greeted him with round after round of cheers. Not one of them had even...