Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unnamed service chief on Wilson: "The most uninformed man, and the most determined to remain so." His "deception and duplicity," says Gavin, let him conceal slashes in combat-ready divisions by creating "Wilson" divisions out of paper groups of troops as far apart as Fort Benning, Ga. and the Panama Canal Zone. Wilson made good a foolish assurance to Congress that no additional soldiers were needed for Formosan defense, charges Gavin, by shipping groups over without shoulder patches...
...Panama, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala...
...government was equally angry. For the first time, the complacently highbrow Danish State Radio was up against competition. Last week many of its 1,450,000 listeners were switching to crass dance music laced with commercials. Source of the jarring notes: a tubby freighter that flew the flag of Panama, safely at anchor twelve miles offshore, beyond Danish territorial waters...
...Middle East crisis, Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek last week cabled Ike to say that Latin American participation in any U.N. summit conference is "reasonable, just and even indispensable." Kubitschek was putting himself squarely behind the U.S.; he did not cable the U.N. or Soviet Boss Khrushchev, and Panama and Colombia are already on the Security Council...
Brown is used to obscurity. Born in New Orleans, the son of a Negro carpenter, Brown was early tagged as a fancy-dan by boxing's matchmakers, often had trouble getting fights. "I had to go to Panama for a year and to Australia for six months to find someone to fight." he recalls. But Joe's fortunes improved after Trainer Bill Gore took him over late in 1955, set about making him more of a slugger...