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The capital was quiet and tense last week while the National Assembly was sitting in judgment on deposed President Arnulfo Arias (TIME, May 21). When the police brought him into the chamber, he settled into a chair, elaborately polished his eyeglasses, flipped open a copy of the bestselling Kon-Tiki...
By unanimous vote, the Assembly found Arias guilty of violating the constitution and barred him for life from holding public office in Panama. The prisoner was taken back to jail to wait out a threatened charge of shooting a police officer during the popular uprising that overthrew his regime.
In March, Arias made a reckless grab for control of the independent Panama Trust Co. (TIME, March 19). The grab failed, but the bank was wrecked and had to close its doors. A fortnight ago, Ar-nulfo's opponents struck back by working up a run on the Government...
That was too much for fed-up Panamanians. Crowds gathered outside Chichi Remón's headquarters and clamorously demanded that he get rid of Arias. A general strike broke out. That night the National Assembly impeached Arias and swore in Vice President Alcibíades Arose. mena as...
Even the singing is occasionally marred by poor dubbing-a surprising lapse in MGM's usual technical proficiency-and by pointless attempts to make Tenor Lanza look effortless while performing arias that ordinarily require opera singers to flex every muscle. But Lanza is in fine voice, and with such...