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...Santo Stefano. The Panama Portrait is a Madison Avenue Heart of Darkness with a shirt ad as hero. Ben Smith is the fella, a handsome Kansan who forsakes the "smell of failure" at home for the big city and a vast company, Seaways Industries. Smith thinks of himself as a thoughtful sort-there are days on end when he wonders if Seaways is really for him. But when his hero, General Manager James F. X. O'Harragh, picks him for an all-or-nothing assignment to corner the rock lobster market on tiny Santo Stefano, all doubt vanishes...
...island of Santo Stefano is the kind of loaded microcosm an experienced reader can smell a mile off. So, it happens, can everyone else. Santo Stefano's main source of wealth is a rich guano deposit that envelops it in an aroma visitors find intolerable but that the natives are used to. "It smells like money to them," Ben muses...
...like bullfighting; and besides, to get the rock lobster contract he must seem simpdtico to the proud Bam-bas-Quincy family, whose wealth dominates the island. Finally, Ben Smith sees what Author Ellin's cluttered symbolism has been thundering about all along: U.S. commerce and Santo Stefano cruelty are all of a piece. The self-control demanded of the self-hanged men-who lose the contest if they begin to twitch and jiggle in the noose too soon-is precisely the quiescence Seaways demands of him against the hope of prospering in the company. O'Harragh has even...
...dozed with his feet dangling in space. As daylight came, skiers gathered far down below to stare through telescopes at the four specks crawling upwards on der Eiger. With surprising ease, the four surmounted "the spider," a notorious, four-pronged glacier that caused the death of Italy's Stefano Longhi...
...sins, would be shocked if the priest told him to give up smoking for a week or get up every morning at dawn. But just such penances are proposed in the latest issue of Rome's influential Vita Pastorale by the clerical monthly's editor. Father Stefano Lamera...