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...places to eat rapidly without surrendering to the hamburger and hot-dog stands, most notably in the International Plaza, a busy jumble of closely packed shops and food counters. The corner-lot boomtime atmosphere is a pleasant change from the more ordered pace of the rest of the fair. Ecuadorian banana dogs cost 50?, Norwegian loganberry punch 25?, and a 99? Belgian waffle covered with fresh whipped cream and fresh strawberries can be a meal in itself. Peptic athletes can eat Egg Foo Yumburgers, Fishwiches, and frankfurters packed in cornmeal, and wet it all down with Philippine beer. The Luxembourg...
...Ecuadorian Indians faced up to the problem in the days before Columbus; so did U.S. dentists around the time of the Revolution: if someone had a hole in his jawbone where a tooth had just been extracted, why not fill it with any fresh, healthy-looking tooth that happened to be available? The answer seemed especially logical since many of these transplants apparently worked...
...Last week Ecuadorian Sailor Julio Luna, whose grenade-smashed right hand had been replaced by a transplant from a recently dead donor (TIME, March 6), was flown to Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. There doctors concluded, "The natural rejection mechanism of the patient had progressed to the point that prolongation of the transplant would jeopardize the health of the patient's whole arm," reluctantly amputated Luna's new hand...
...Ecuadorian saying is "You must play politics like a violin: pick it up with your left hand and play it with your right." Many believe that Arosemena is mastering himself as well as the political fiddle, and the odds are improving that he may even make it through to the 1964 elections. Once curbed by Arosemena, the far left turned out to be a remarkably shallow and ineffectual clique; the army, said Conservative Party Leader Francisco Salazar, "has no strong leader, and it doesn't want to get mixed up in politics." And even those most disillusioned with Arosemena...
...gently satirical books delighted adults and children alike; of cancer of the pancreas; in Manhattan. Son of a Belgian painter and a Bavarian brewer's daughter. Bemelmans worked as a hotel waiter, opened his own restaurant, became a bon vivant and peopled his books and canvases with epileptic Ecuadorian generals, French jewel thieves. American ladies in feather boas, and a Parisian moppet named Madeline. "The purpose of art," he once said, "is to console and amuse-myself, and, I hope, others...