Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toll rates will open in Ottawa and Washington in August; if both the U.S. and Canadian governments approve the rates as recommended, it will usually cost shipowners less in tolls to move their vessels the 369 miles from Montreal to Lake Erie than to go through the Panama or Suez Canals...
...orchestra suffered its share of mishaps, beginning when its trunks were rain-soaked in Panama (TIME, May 12). It hit Guayaquil, Ecuador at a time when the streets were noisome as a result of a six-week garbage strike. In La Paz some of the players got high-altitude sickness, and in Santiago they played in an open sports arena with 30 electric heaters strategically spotted about the stage. But in Lima, days after a crowd had tried to break up the Nixon tour, the orchestra got an ovation when it played The Star-Spangled Banner...
...Guatemala, El Salvador. Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama...
Nixon also found poor performance in Latin American diplomacy -what Latinos call "blah-blah" Pan-Americanism. The Presidents' Conference in Panama in 1956, sponsored and attended by President Eisenhower, is scorned as "just a gesture" by U.S. friends such as Galo Plaza. Except for Communist crises -the Red threat to Guatemala -Secretary of State Dulles is virtually inaccessible to hemisphere diplomats for serious discussions. He is criticized for staying at the 1954 Tenth Inter-American Conference in Caracas just long enough to jam through an anti-Communist resolution, and fly home, leaving the question of economic relations, dear...
...grabbing business mostly by making themselves the "discount houses of the air." Brazil's big Real-Aerovias charges only $432 for the round-trip excursion flight between Miami and Buenos Aires, as compared with the $779 asked by International Air Transport Association members such as Pan American. Panama's Aerovias flies from Panama to Miami for $55, v. the standard $94-and serves Scotch highballs on the house. Last week, grimly preparing to meet the competition, Panagra got set to introduce an excursion fare of its own that will undercut I.A.T.A. rates by 30%.* On the Cheap. Latin...