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On Saturday, too late for ue to do ai^hlng about it, came a phone 
call from the airport that we had a package. Our long-delayed order of 
fast filmi It was to have been sent in time for us to pick it up when 
we came through Miami in J\me. But it wasn't there. Early in July a 
dribble of two thousand feet of Ektaohrome Commercial had arrived by 
way of the American Consulate where it had been bung up for several days. 
Had I not brought along film safeguard and for the period in August 
after the expiration of grant funds when I shall be shooting on ny own, 
we would have been without film. This batch of film coming in was to be 
t 
imsdim speed Ektachrome, a material with speed enough to allow photo- 
graphic work undersea in cloudy weather, aruJ possibly some at night. 
It is not fast enotigh to be too grairy, and has good printing qualities. 
Under nomaal circumstances I would have imn tests on it early in the 
season and we would have had tte btigs out of it before we ran out of 
our slower film. Now we have four rolls of Smithsonian film remaining, 
and the prospect of an untried film to deal with. 
On Sunday I had checked at the airport, but the air frei^t office 
was not open, natuie>lly, ai^ would not be until nine Monday. I was there 
at nine, and was greeted by the Informtlon that the office did not open 
until nine forty-five. After hanging about until the appointed hour, 
another surprise. The package wasn’t film at all, but a big box of field 
equipjffint for John McCain who was arriving as field representative of the 
Smithsonian. And I could not have the box until the papers were stamped 
by the American Consulate. 
Back at the house again I found that a call had come from the Consulate 
