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Died. Lloyd Tilghman Binford, 89, crotchety, Crump-backed chairman (1928-56) of the Memphis board of censors, who peered through his pince-nez, peevishly banned films because of: too much sex ("There's a little evil in every one of us"), Negroes in flattering roles, Ingrid Bergman or Charlie Chaplin (he did not approve of their private lives), who retired last January; after long illness; in Memphis...
...Panama's Tocumen Airport, ex-Strongman Juan Perón affably thanked the Panamanian government for "eight good months" and sent his warmest regards to "the humble and suffering, and all the workers" of Panama. Upstairs, the former Argentine dictator's shapely secretary, Dancer Isabel Martínez, stopped sipping a Coke long enough to pose for photographers and describe her boss as "an extraordinary man in all respects." Then Perón, 60, and Isabel, 23, climbed aboard a plane for Venezuela...
...handsome, modern El Panamá hotel, where all the Presidents except Ike and Venezuela's Marcos Pérez Jiménez were billeted,† the informality of a college reunion flourished. To avoid the possibility of hurt feelings, suites identical in size and furnishings were set aside for each chief of state, put under guard and furnished with on-the-house bottles of each President's favorite drink (Spanish "Fundador" brandy for Cuba's Fulgencio Batista, Scotch for Chile's Carlos Ibáñez, French cognac for Mexico's Adolfo Ruiz Cortines...
...Eisenhower stayed at the U.S. embassy, Pérez Jiménez at a private residence...
...nez' declaration early in February of an amnesty for political exiles excited and heartened the homesick expatriate Arcayas. Son Carlos and daughter Ana flew to Manhattan from Madrid. Eager but doubtful, they conferred with son Mariano, a Park Avenue lawyer. On advice from home, Ana went to Caracas and arrived unharmed. Carlos, a scholarly, nonpolitical lawyer, was picked to make the next test. The New York consul gave him a visa and General Pérez Jiménez' word on the honor of the army that he would not be mistreated...