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Freshman Jubilee Committee; PBH Reform School Committee; Vice - President and Member of the Vestry, Canterbury; Student Council Elections Committee; Eliot House Committee (Sophomore-Junior-Senior); Club Hispanico - Americano; House Swimming...
Major Shupe began yelling "Americano! Americano!" No effect. But suddenly, from somewhere in the crowd, he heard the words "New York! Chicago!" Shupe threw his head back and shouted "New York! Chicago! New York! Chicago!" He shouted every U.S. place name he could think of-"Pittsburgh! Kansas City! Kansas City! Boston! Dallas! San Francisco!" And at last the peasants, who perhaps had thought that the airmen were their old enemies, the Turks, fell back. Just before the Soviet military police arrived one of the peasants offered Shupe a drink of water. "Don't ask me why," said he afterward...
...aerial jitneys, such as war-surplus C-46s converted from U.S. Air Force freighters into lumbering passenger planes. Chile's thriving Cinta line paints its four-engined airliners Panagra yellow and green, and calls one flight El Latinamericano in cousinly association to Panagra's crack El Inter Americano -but not even dubbing the plane "Super DC-4B" makes it anything but an un-pressurized, 230-m.p.h...
...There was one bloodstained breach in Batista's hospitality. Reporter Neal Wilkinson was sipping coffee across from the presidential palace when police caught up with a group of teen-age rebels who stopped a few feet from Wilkinson. One cop turned on Wilkinson and, disregarding his cries of "Americano," clubbed him about the face and body, pursuing him until he reached the sanctuary of his hotel...
Involving a critical mission into enemy territory to knock out a bridge, the bulk of the film is concerned with the exploits of our brave Americano amidst a most unconvincing group of gypsies. Particularly grating is the phoney accent meant to simulate Spanish, ably seconded by the blatant and ill-written dialogue. No effort is made to indicate fully rounded characters; both Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman turn in poor performances as Grant and Bergman, nothing else...