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Panama. About 130 temporary bases were constructed outside the ten-mile-wide Canal Zone. Most of these bases (radar, searchlight, antiaircraft posts) have been returned to Panama. But the U.S. is faced with a terrific problem in defending the Big Ditch from the overcrowded air fields within the Canal Zone. Therefore, the U.S. has retained some of the outlying air bases, pointing out that though the fighting is over, the peace treaties have not been signed. Panama's President Enrique A. Jiménez has indicated that he understands the problem. But some Panamanians are piqued by the fact...
...then he was running out of gas. Droning low over the south shore of Long Island, fearful that he would have to ditch in the Atlantic, Boothe saw a white strip beneath him. He had only five minutes' gas supply left when he leveled off over the deserted sands of Jones Beach, made a belly landing. He and the copilot were cut and shaken up; no one else was hurt, but the ship was wrecked. G.C.A. (see above) might have saved that...
...Never Grew Up." In the summer, the Potters went to Scotland or the Lake District, where Mr. Potter hunted and indulged his hobby-collecting autographed letters of the Lake Poets. It was there that Beatrix discovered "the child's half-real, half-fantastic world of pond and ditch, stone walls and foxgloves, woods and sandy warrens"-side by side with "the crowded informal cottage gardens," the cupboards and dressers, the huge ranges with their pans of dough rising under "an old clean blanket." All these things Beatrix carried back in her mind to London, and, in her own words...
...well. B.F. is kindly, practical, knows how to get along with people and make money. His thinking never goes deeper than: "Any boy has a chance in America if he only sees the picture ... if he only sees the picture." He never does understand why Polly should want to ditch the Yale-bred, well-to-do childhood sweetheart she is engaged to and marry dimeless, academic New Dealer Tom Brett...
...Dunster-Winthrop tussle was pretty much a Funster affair all the way, although the second tally didn't come until the last play of the game. That was the result of a 30-yard journey by Chuck MacDonald after snagging a last-ditch Puritan pass. Jim Aldrich swept around end for the initial six points, both scores coming in the second half...