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Winter gathered in the South last week. The tops of the dark mountains were panelled brightly with ice. The chandeliers at the opera house, El Teatro Colon, in Buenos Aires, glittered as if with a luminous frost. At 9 o'clock, when the curbs outside it were populated with chauffeurs, wrapped in long coats, music began in El Colon. Tullio Serafin raised his baton, the violins began a soft prelude and the curtain rose upon Aida, a scene of warm sands and tropical trees...
...with some 60,000 passengers. Berlin is already linked by air to London, Paris, Moscow and the Scandinavian capitals. Next summer the German air net will be flung southward, to Madrid, Vienna and (cooperating with the new Italian Aero Lloyd) to Rome. Herr Hermann Mayenberger, operating expert of the Colon Co., Hispano-Zeppelin firm, announces definitely that in the spring of 1928 Zeppelins now building at Friedrichshafen will be flying on a four-and-one-half-day schedule between Seville and Buenos Aires, a transatlantic run now made by the fastest steamers in 20 days...
...military aircraft over Panama shall be unrestricted, but other foreign aircraft shall be regulated with the cardinal purpose of protecting the Canal. 4) The U. S. receives in perpetuity the "use, occupation and control" of Manzanilla Island (at the Atlantic terminus of the Canal) and the harbor of Colon...
From Panama came news last week of one Aime H. L. Tschiffley, 30-odd, blue-eyed, redhaired, freckled, tanned, who had arrived at Colon from Buenos Aires, whence he departed Apr. 23, 1925, with two gelding criollos (horses) of the Patagonian pampas, one of which he was trying to ride from the Argentine to New York. The second horse carried a pack. They had crossed salt deserts, the high Andes, skirted Lake Titicaca, plunged through Ecuadorian jungles (where Mr. Tschiffley, whom the South American press had dubbed "Don Quixote de la Mancha," had to blanket the animals heavily to save...
...What a real warmth it has" concluded Plimpkin as he added a comma to the erratum of Jones and a great, fat semi-colon to the marginal notes of Thwait. They smiled at each other benignly. The lovely lady was watching the fire, watching the flame which always was reaching, trying...