Word: gatun
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...living," they say in exasperation, not the enclave of air-conditioned colonial privilege that it has been portrayed, not an opulent anachronism in a world of nationalism. They point to the termites at work on their houses, the jungle growing up to the kitchen door, the "yacht club" at Gatun Lake that amounts to little more than a raft children dive from, while their parents drink beer and cook the family dinner: barbecued Panamanian beef. The club, like the zone's four non-military golf courses, was built by the employees, not the company...
Barghoorn left Cambridge for Panama on Dec. 11 with Dorothy Osgood, his assistant, Alan K. Graham, a research fellow in Biology, and Graham's wife. The group intended to college rock core samples which had been taken from Lake Gatun by the Panama Canal Company as part of a geological study. Barghoorn hoped to recover fossil pollens from the rock samples...
...joint air, sea and land maneuver, Carib-Ex pulled together 17,000 men, 200 planes and 30 ships, making it the biggest U.S. military show in Latin America since the 1930s. As the landing force knifed inland, a swarm of helicopters deposited another Marine assault force near the vital Gatun Locks. Two days later 1,000 paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division floated down to take strategic ground on the Pacific side of the Isthmus...
...Barro Colorado Island in Gatun Lake, Dr. Schneirla followed the columns of army ants to their strongholds, then studied the biological mechanism which governs their lives...
Example: when Colonel Oldfield's men were short of lumber for their barracks, he sent them by night to strip the hulk of an old ship, forlorn on the shore of Gatun Lake...