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Charlie sold 18 people, 14 of them women, half of them young and unattached. Of the four males one was a three-year-old boy. They boarded the Pasado Mañana, ("The Day After Tomorrow," Charlie explained) at San Pedro one morning four weeks ago, and were dismayed...
Floating Luggage. The Pasado was a yacht all right, but she had been built in the mid-'20s to accommodate six people. The 96-foot vessel had done a hitch in the Coast Guard during the war, and she was greasy, grimy and sooty. Later the passengers agreed that they should have backed out right then & there. But Charlie said things would be cleaned up on the way to Honolulu...
...enchanted voyage began. A fuel line broke and the Pasado took a whole day to clear San Pedro. Just past the breakwater, the engine coughed and quit; it took another hour to fix it. The old tub pitched with a horrible intensity and all the passengers were sick long before she got under way again. Soon the toilets backed up and floated the luggage. The second day out the lone shower was turned off-there was a water shortage-and nobody had a bath for the rest of the voyage. Nobody, for that matter, bothered to take off his clothing...
Commercially Brazil is a backward Colossus. The torpor of her tropic citizens and the very plenitude of projects at their disposal has made the land somewhat notorious as el pasado manana-"the country of tomorrow." A succession of get-rich-quick booms-during which immense numbers of Brazilians have actually gotten rich quickly-has not stabilized the national character or promoted the development of a pioneer class, so needed to develop Brazil's boundless resources. At first it was too easy to make a fortune out of sugar, then cacao, then cotton, gold, diamonds, rubber. When the rubber boom...