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...standard globe, plus checking with tables of airline distances, shows that -even allowing for a Kiska stopover-the Japs would find Minneapolis at least 300 miles farther from Tokyo than is San Diego. And, similarly measured on great circles, Chicago is at least 1,000 statute miles closer to Punta Gallinas, Colombia, than to the nearest Siberian point...
Believing her doomed, her unhurt 39-man crew pulled off, beefing at her as a Jonah (on this her maiden northbound voyage-motors dead off Punta del Este; motor repairs at Rio; propeller trouble at Recife; 41 days for a 16-day run). The captain and part of his crew were mildly embarrassed when a U.S. man-of-war picked them up after two nights and a day, informed them that cranky, stubborn Victoria had refused to sink and was drifting derelict, and put them back aboard her. There they found the rest of the crew, calmly awaiting their arrival...
...Punta Arenas, world's southernmost city (pop. 24,307), a sheep ranchers'center, the Antarctic exiles re-entered the green world of vegetables, trees, rocks, beer, money, steaks, French friend potatoes, lettuce-and women. Shaved, dressed in khaki shirts and trousers, with money to spend, the men piled ashore, pushed aside photographers and interviewers as they set out to fulfill long-considered plans. One man had sworn he would get the autograph of the first woman he saw. But she sailed past the wharf in an automobile, would not stop. Their plans were not all alike...
...President remained inactive for two days making plans. Impatient Colonel Pedraza demanded an audience, was refused. Fellow Plotter Lieut. Colonel Gonzalez, disgruntled over the loss of his customs concession and the sharp contraband control ordered by Batista, unlimbered the guns of La Punta fortress, trained them on the Presidential Palace. Guards set up machine guns around the Palace and piled sandbags in front of it. Cubans waited for the revolution...
...President placed himself at the head of the Army, suspended constitutional guarantees for 15 days and commanded the Army to take over public utilities. The big guns of Camp Columbia were trained on La Punta fortress. Batista ordered the arrest of Colonel Pedraza and of Lieut. Colonels Gonzalez and Garcia, replaced them. Next morning all the rebels were in custody. To the Army and nation the President declared that it had been necessary to "repress" his Army and Navy chiefs because of their "attitude of sedition," but that "a deep crisis which endangered the stability of the Republic has been...