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...with the important business of negotiating a new treaty and getting Panama's economy back in shape. In 1963 Panama had its best year in history; last year, after the riots, was far from good. Some $30 million in capital fled to Switzerland and Nassau, so far has not returned. Zone residents, who once spent $1,600,000 a month in Panama City, are beginning to spend again, but many remain hesitant to shop in town. New foreign investment virtu ally was halted for months following the disorders. The unemployment rate is up to a staggering...
...spectacular success of the Music Center has spread Buff Chandler's fame as a fund raiser across the land. Recently she was asked for her formula by three representatives of the seven-building, $45.5 million John F. Kennedy Civic, Educational and Cultural Center for Nassau County, L.I., also designed by Welton Becket, which will begin to rise late next year...
...President Edgar Kaiser and Loew's Hotel President Preston R. Tisch flew that far last year. Jets also make it possible for prosperous executives to live in one climate and relax in another. Pan Am has a regular clientele of Manhattan businessmen who have bought winter homes in Nassau, jet from snow to sun weekends on an easy 2-hr. 50-min. flight...
...those days they called Nassau Street "The Street that Leads to the Pie Woman's" and Broad Street was known as "Smell Street Lane." Wall Street had its actual wall then (the Dutch had set it up for protection against the Indians), a real canal ran across Canal Street, and a country road called "Verdant Lane" wound about the west end of what is now Times Square. East of Riverside Drive between 125th and 132nd Streets lay "Mother David's Valley...
...Pennsylvania's Roger Penske, 27: a sweep of the first two major races in the Bahamas Speed Weeks, at Nassau's twisting, 4.5-mi. Oakes Field race course. Driving a Corvette Grand Sport, Penske averaged 95.5 m.p.h. to win the Tourist Trophy race for sports cars, switched to a Chevrolet-powered Chaparral to beat A. J. Foyt for the Governor's Cup, averaging a record 100.1 m.p.h. for the 112.5-mi. race...