Word: chichiness
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...away with anarchy." said Jose Antonio ("Chichi") Remón, explaining why he ran for President of Panama in 1952. As the country's strongman police chief he had watched five men try to govern Panama during the span of one normal presidential term, had reluctantly turned a couple of the failures out of office at gunpoint. President Remón brought order out of disorder, and Panama found the sensation so pleasant that it marked him down as almost indispensable. But last week Remón lay dead, and something like a relapse into anarchy plainly threatened...
...tiny (pop. 800,000) country's No. 1 horse lover; only a state crisis could keep him from his Sunday afternoon in the presidential box at the finish line of Panama City's suburban Juan Franco race track. If the Remón stables had a winner, Chichi usually called for a mild celebration (his favorite drink: champagne on the rocks). So when his Valley Star copped the tenth race last week, the President and his guests stayed on in the emptying clubhouse...
Died. José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón, 46, President of Panama since 1952, prior to that his country's president-making police chief; at the hands of machine-gunning assassins, at Juan Franco race track outside Panama City...
...Panama, he entered the National Police (the nation's only armed force) as a captain. At U.S. invitation, he later attended the famed old cavalry school at Fort Riley, Kans., where he became a crack shot and a good friend of the U.S. Pearl Harbor time found Chichi in a position to do his friends of the north a good turn; before midnight on Dec. 7, 1941 he had smoothly rounded up every German and Japanese resident of Panama-a timely precaution against sabotage of the Panama Canal...
...Word of Hope. Its tragic peak was reached after its co-writers, Carl Bixby and Don Becker, succumbed to listener demand and married Chichi to Stephen Hamilton, a crippled sweetheart. Later on they realized their mistake: "It didn't fit in with a young girl who was footloose & fancy-free. So we had their baby die of pneumonia after Stephen had taken him out in the rain, and then killed him off with a heart attack. For two weeks afterward we kept Chichi off the air in the interests of good taste, and that was that. He was never...