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Panama. Anti-U.S. riots a year ago looked like real trouble. Lately the outlook has improved with the inauguration of enlightened Oligarch Roberto Chiari as President, plus a friendship drive by U.S. officials, and a U.S. decision to let the Panamanian flag fly beside the Stars and Stripes on Canal Zone soil...
...tons v. their present 65,000. The Dominican Republic, where Dictator Trujillo controls the sugar industry, expects a windfall of about 200,000 tons, and Panama will increase its quota from 3,600 to 10,000 tons, providing a bonanza for the family of President-elect Roberto F. Chiari, which owns the country's biggest sugar plantations and refinery. All of these countries will be paid at the premium quota rate...
President-elect Roberto F. ("Nino") Chiari, 55, is a birthright member of the moneyed cluster of families that have run Panama since the republic was founded in 1903. He was by no means the choice of the nationalistic mob that last November riotously invaded the U.S.-run Canal Zone to plant the Panamanian flag there. Since the other two candidates were equally patrician and soberly bent on keeping Canal Zone sovereignty out of the election, the mob did not get a choice. Chiari's win was chiefly a response to the perennial Latin American urge to upset the incumbent...
...Nino Chiari, a serious, quiet man, is the heir to a family fortune in ranching, sugar and dairy farming, which he has built up by riding his ranges in shirt-sleeves and keeping an austere eye peeled for signs of waste or obsolescence. This year conservative Chiari campaigned on muted issues of harder work, fewer government employees, more development projects and fewer showcase public works. He made only a mild plea for the right to fly the Panamanian next to the U.S. flag: "I cannot see what harm it can possibly do a country as large...
...Rome, thrice-married Cinemactress Ava Gardner said four times was out, described her near, dear companion, Italian Comic Walter Chiari; as just an "attentive, affectionate, charming friend." Mourned Chiari: "I could be ready for the ceremony in ten minutes...