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...Panama, Like Egypt . . ." The Panamanian who has symbolized the discontent and would like to capitalize on it politically is Aquilino Boyd, 38, a handsome lawyer from a Panamanian "best" family, who would like to be elected President next year. For months, Boyd has been whipping up feeling. "Panama, like Egypt," he said, "could not build her own canal because she is a small nation and had to accept foreign aid. Every day the idea is gaining force that eventually Panama should regain jurisdiction." What that meant precisely, he never said, but he did not want the canal itself for Panama...
With all the emotional, economic and political issues involved, a vital difference remains between the demands of Boyd's unruly mobs and Egypt's once unruly Nasser. Whereas Nasser acted in his official capacity as chief of state to reach out and grab the Suez Canal, Panama's President de la Guardia shuns such ambition, and even the mob so far aspires only to seeing the Panamanian flag flying over the "sovereign" territory...
...evening takes a postgraduate course in premarital relations at the Plaza Hotel. When she discovers that the course only leads to a mistress' degree, she decides to concentrate on her career and eke out her love life with an alcoholic editor of teen topics (Stephen Boyd...
...John Boyd-Carpenter, 51, Minister of Pensions. Grandson of the "silvertongued" Bishop of Ripon who was Queen Victoria's favorite preacher, Boyd-Carpenter is an effective verbal duelist in the House of Commons, a stickler for detail, and a vigorous administrator who is likely to get any particularly tough chore facing the Macmillan administration...
...great friend, this poet has aspired to write esoteric verse. Unfortunately his work has now received general acclaim . . ." Current members in good standing include Lord Mountbatten, Evelyn Waugh. Sir Gladwyn Jebb, T. S. Eliot, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, but not Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell (though he is an Oxford man); Press Lords Kemsley and Astor, but not Beaverbrook (no college). In its correspondence columns the Establishment Chronicle approvingly published the letter of an M.P. aspiring to membership in the Establishment: "Sir, I am the brother of a Lord...