Word: chichi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shirt who stomped up & down among the tables: Candidate José Antonio Remón, once commander and still boss of Panama's only armed force, the 3,300-man National Police. Actually, because Panamanians count votes at their leisure (after the last election they took three months), "Chichi" Remón would not know the exact tally for weeks. But behind Chichi were his cops, the government, control of most of the vote-counting, a razzle-dazzle campaign and even a respectable number of willing voters. With that setup, it was hard to see how he could lose...
...Twisted Isthmus . . . In population the land Chichi runs is one of the world's smallest nations. In area, it is also tiny, stretching for just 450 miles along the narrow isthmus linking the Americas -an isthmus so curiously twisted that from Panama City the sun is seen to rise out of the Pacific. The land's best known feature, the canal, runs through the ten-mile-wide, U.S.-controlled Canal Zone which splits the republic. In the bisected nation, politics are fought out in a manner as twisted as the land's geography. Since the last election...
Panama. Having made or broken four Presidents, Panama's Strong Man "Chichi" Remón expects to be elected to the presidency himself next month...
...Ralph Colins began collecting paintings because they "wanted something to hang on the wall." Corporation Lawyer* Colin and his wife decided on modern paintings as "more appropriate in a modern apartment-old masters in the same surroundings would be chichi." Though they specialize in such safe school-of-Paris bets as Rouault, Picasso, Matisse, Miro, Soutine and Modigliani, the Colins admit to having made some poor purchases: "But we love our mistakes-we never sell or exchange them...
...Where "Chichi" supplied the firepower for a revolution and an ex-President was barred forever from public office...