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Egan. Texas shrimpers have to deal with Mexican gunboats that wait to pounce on them over western Gulf of Mexico shrimp beds; and San Diego tuna men are still bitter about last spring's capture of two of their boats by Ecuador, which assessed $26,000 in fines...
...happy ending, several scenes are stolen by a disarming cinemoppet named Claire Wilcox. Claire, 8, plays a food faddist who hates to mix up her victuals. To make a snack, she lines up four plates on the table, puts bread on one, lettuce on another, tuna on a third, mayonnaise on the fourth. Then she starts nibbling from each plate in sequence. "It's a sandwich," she explains, "only the food isn't touching...
Undecorous Acts." Last week at a formal dinner in Quito honoring Admiral Wilfred J. McNeil, president of Grace Line, Arosemena was full of liquid passion. Evidently upset over the squabble with U.S. tuna fishermen, he told off U.S. Ambassador Maurice Bernbaum in loud, undiplomatic language. "The Government of the United States," declared Arosemena, "exploits Latin America and exploits Ecuador." He then, said the dinner guests, committed a series of "even more undecorous acts," and vomited in front of the gathering. At an all-night meeting, officers of all three services agreed that Arosemena...
...named Casa Encantada. He lives there alone and, with 19 servants at his call, does nothing for himself; he will not even buy his own clothes. While his hotels like to proclaim their appeal to gourmets, Hilton is indifferent to fancy food, preferring to dine on corned beef hash, tuna-fish casserole and tea served in plastic cups ("It's more sanitary."). Though his hotels pride themselves on the original works of art they hang in lobbies and guest rooms (the New York Hilton has 8,500 specially commissioned works), one of the least appreciative viewers is Conrad Hilton...
Fickle Flickers. Children's tastes change so rapidly that companies catering to the market survey it constantly to detect each flicker of interest. Popeye is currently out; so are Doctors Kildare and Ben Casey, model trains (they are considered old-fashioned), and tuna fish. Among the current ins: Mr. Magoo, electric toothbrushes, army toys, English bikes, kosher foods, pizza pies, and Frankenstein monsters...