Placed .eps files w/ spot white don't appear in PDF

This happens on and off and I am completely flummoxed. Any suggestions would be most welcome!

Original logo is created in Illustrator, so I saved it as an .eps for scalability in InDesign. What format should I be using instead?
Also, logo white was initially a process and I set it to spot. This has resolved the issue other times, but not this time.

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