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Company lands now planted in bananas, African oil palms and other crops, as well as dairy pastures, planted mahogany forests and building sites, are exempt from expropriation. Thus the drastic seizure will not immediately end United Fruit's Guatemala operation. But eventually, as the inevitable "Panama disease" (a fungus that attacks the roots) sickens the banana lands, the company, deprived of its reserve tracts, will have to cut production. And United Fruit is on notice that further investment in Guatemala would be unwelcome-and unwise...
When Ryan and Quinn are not trying to retrieve the bullion against the onslaughts of the elements, they are pursuing the lady skipper of a banana boat (Mala Powers) and a nightclub entertainer (Suzan Ball). Sample of the dampish dialogue: Diver Quinn, parrying a marriage proposal by Suzan-"Think of what our kids might be like, full of bends and nitro bubbles." City Beneath the Sea has a few eerily effective underwater scenes, filmed in Technicolor, depicting Port Royal's ghostly ruins...
...institution of higher learning and winning the big football game for his alma mater as a razzle-dazzle quarterback. Bonzo* also caddies on a golf course, brushes his teeth (and then eats the toothpaste), takes a bubble bath and displays the finest of table manners while dining on mashed bananas, banana fritters and banana shortcake...
...Colgate man. So that you may be able to converse intelligently at parties after the game, there follows a short glossary of Colgatisms, with corresponding English definitions: You're out of it You are a social dud You've had it You're drunk You've gotton the green banana Your data called up and broke the data Three-dollar bills People who are "out of it" Sack rat A person who likes to sleep Tunk An all-male jolly-up To bomb To study Smooth up Put on decent-looking clothes The 'Case Syracuse, N.Y. site of a bloody...
...attack on Plaza's administration and his naked demand for special power sounded like the crotchety, irascible, impatient Velasco of old. In two earlier terms as President (1934-35, 1944-47), Velasco swung bewilderingly between left & right, flouted constitutions, railed unceasingly at "politicos with mouse minds" who "put banana peels in my way." He got the permanent nickname el loco (the loony), and finally made so many enemies that he was driven from office and packed into exile both times...