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...minded President had strato-clippered the 2,875 miles from Lima to Bolling Field, where waited Franklin Roosevelt and pomp & circumstance. Although no parade had been scheduled, seven military bands and guards of honor at "present arms" flanked the four-mile route. In sockets on Franklin Roosevelt's "Sunshine Special," his big, shiny limousine, stood the Presidential flag and Peru's red-and-white banner. Government workers hung out of office windows. It was Washington's first parade since Pearl Harbor...
Davio Acevedo, of Lima. Peru, as Research Fellow in Physiology; M.D. Faculty of Medicine of Lima, Peru...
...That the screened wooden balconies that jut from the walls of old Peruvian palaces in Lima and elsewhere, are patterned after those of East Indian harems...
...Panagra passenger has plenty of time and likes to fly, he can -leave Cristobal via Pan Am's frequent Central American or Venezuelan flights. From an operating standpoint, Panagra's toughest problem is that it must base equipment, materials and personnel in South America (mainly Lima), has lost many a crackerjack pilot and mechanic because he would not stay away from the States...
...halls of the British Embassy the presents piled up: crates of eggs, of oranges, mince pies, pecans, a box of onions, a bag of lima beans, two bottles of Napoleon brandy, 5,000 cigars, a set of corncob pipes, catnip for the Churchill cat, a field hat worn by Prince Otto von Bismarck, a wool afghan, a Shriner's hat, silk scarves, gloves, ties, socks, a sweater, a towel bearing the Union Jack, a framed list of U.S. Presidents, a copy of George Washington's will, a painting of the Great Seal of Ohio, a pair of spectacles...