Word: isthmus
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...Divided Isthmus...
...gorgeous, $300,000 brick-and-wrought-iron townhouse in Manhattan's east 705, filled with primitive masks and sophisticated paintings by numerous young artists whose work he wants to en courage He owns two harbors and an isthmus in Rhodes, which he discovered when he filmed The Guns of Navarone...
...minded oldtime civilian employees of the Panama Canal Co., were as dissatisfied as the Panamanian demonstrators. "The sight of a representative of the U.S. handing our capitulation notice to another country made me want to puke," said one. Yet a quiet movement toward international friendship is afoot on the isthmus, and its patron is a powerful one: the commanding officer of the U.S. Army Caribbean, Major General Theodore F. Bogart, 55. Lanky General Bogart got to know and like Panama when he was stationed there as a lieutenant in 1941. Now, as the man who might have to order...
Intransigence on both sides could bring new riots on Nov. 3, Panamanian Independence Day. But General Bogart has already proved that behind angry faces there is a big reservoir of ordinary human friendship on the isthmus...
Fidel Castro's ambassadors on the isthmus are diligently stirring discontent with skillful propaganda, lending films, arranging free trips to Cuba, organizing "Friends of Cuba Associations," befriending labor unions. But so far, his implicit encouragement to revolution has not caught on in Central America. The five nations seem content with the progress that they can see-and the long siestas they still cherish...