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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JUNK FOR SALE says the sign in front of the three-bedroom house for which Leigh DuPré pays the Panama Canal Co. $169 a month. A clerk in the company's rate office, DuPre, 40, is going home with his wife and four children after nine years in the Canal Zone. "We don't want to live where there is no U.S. jurisdiction," he explains simply. Janet DuPree (no kin), 33, a kindergarten teacher in the zone and granddaughter of one of the workers who helped dig the big ditch, betrays the festering bitterness of many...
...dictator in question, of course, is Panama's "Maximum Leader of the Revolution," Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera, who seized power from the old oligarchy nine years ago. At 48, he has led Panama through its longest period of internal stability by a combination of stirring leftist rhetoric and a pragmatic respect for free enterprise. His philosophy can embrace almost anything -from government ownership of mines and industry to a hospitable climate for foreign banks, 70 of which have established branches in Panama, with assets of around $12 billion...
...already booked orders for 54 planes to be finished in 1978. Executives and industry analysts expect the upturn to continue. Some airlines have more money to buy planes because traffic is rising and earnings are improving (even Pan Am may report a profit for the first time in nine years...
...couple of years, the University plans to sport an on-campus freshmen dean's residence--after the Prince House, which is now the General Education Office, is packed up and moved down the block and "bolted down," Moses adds--to reinforce his image as something more than a nine-to-five administrator...
...automated its neolithic production processes and spun off four new suburban editions. Sulzberger has also injected new life into the newspaper's parent New York Times Co., which embraces nine smaller dailies, four weeklies, six magazines (including Us, circ. 500,000, a four-month-old imitator of Time Inc.'s PEOPLE), two broadcast stations, three book publishers and part of three Canadian Paper mills. Once an institution more interested in public service than profit, the New York Times Co. is now on Wall Street's goodbuy lists. After several years of see-saw profits (net income was $13.6 million...