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...President Eisenhower's Columbine touched down at Panama's Tocumen Airport. Firing borrowed U.S. Army guns, the Guardia Nacional boomed its 21-gun salute, the honor guard snapped to attention, and the band swung first into The Star-Spangled Banner and then Panama's Himno Nacional. The President of the U.S. stepped from his plane, was greeted warmly by Panama's President Ricardo Arias, dozens of military and diplomatic VIPs (including John Foster Dulles, who had arrived 13 minutes earlier). Ike, his collar size down to 15½ from 16, looked pale and tired after...
...Having no official tide, Colombia's himno national is frequently referred to by the first line of its first verse: "Cesó la horrible noche." It continues: "Sublime liberty brings on the dawn with its invincible light." The "horrible night" was the period of Spanish rule. **For word of another kind of oil deal...
Last March, Police Chief Colonel Filomeno Velazco suspected Aguirre Cámara of being editor of the famous underground newspaper Himno National (National Anthem). Arrested and imprisoned, Aguirre Cámara won his liberty by promising not to attack the Government without telling the police beforehand. Last month, astonished Police Chief Velazco got Aguirre Cámara's warning. Soon, wrote the cheeky ex-deputy, he would publish a scathing pamphlet. He would print it in Argentina. He would remain in the country "until I am convinced that the people do not want to be saved...
Traducción figurada de la letra del Himno Americano...
...front door of his Embassy in Havana and walked down the street in his cutaway and high hat-nonchalantly as became a diplomat. He proceeded straight to the door of the Presidential Palace where, as he arrived, a band on the terrace played "The Star Spangled Banner" and "El himno bayames." Marching inside while the guns of Cabanas Fortress across the bay boomed a 21-gun salute, he received profuse protestations of pleasure from President Carlos Mendieta y Montefur. There was bravery in Ambassador Caffery's walk from the Embassy because he had no certainty that he would reach...