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...softly as the flup-flupping of galápagos (tortoises) on the black island rocks, discussions began between the U.S. and Ecuadoran Governments. Subject: permanent, jointly operated air bases in the Galápagos Islands. In return for the use of the airfields and naval installations,* Ecuador would get $15,000,000 in U.S. loans for sanitary and road improvements. In Washington, Ecuador's jaunty Ambassador Galo Plaza explained that his Government fully realized the value of the bases in the defense of the Canal. He thought that the talks might lead to a treaty. Of course, the treaty...
...talks stopped in midair. And at week's end the only important people concerned with the Galápagos Archipelago were the G.I.s, who had been there for more than two years. They contemplated the giant tortoises, some of whom had been there 200 years...
...Ecuador gave the U.S. the use of bases at Salinas, on the Ecuadoran mainland, and on the volcanic Galápagos Archipelago, 864 miles southwest of the Panama Canal...
...again break out the cobwebbed pen and dip it in the inks of time. So much has happened that we could almost write a history on the subject of Kelvin "Kewpie" O'Donnell alone. For instance, Kirby G. (for Gerkin) Pickle spent his last confederate dollar taking a gal home in a taxi, Napoleon "Tommy" Thomas received a picture from a Texas belle (pronounced "bell") who calls herself "the body." The Count be Wright learned how to swim (dog paddle), Rudy Trummer had a date, S.C. won the Rose Bowl...
...America's great business brain, the picture fails miserably in any attempt to sketch the characters of Major (Pidgeon) and Mrs. (Garson) Parkington more than skin deep. It penetrates no farther than to show at the start of the film a big blustering oil man and his innocent gal of the far west, and at its conclusion a cynical, rather heartless old woman. The only convincing performance of the movie is Agnes Moorehead's, as the Countess, friend, adviser, and former lover of the Major...