People, Mar. 18, 1957

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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,...

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