Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Alcibiades Arosemena, 73, career dairy farmer who became President of Panama (1951-52), later Ambassador to France; of a heart attack; in Panama...
...Panama Hotel, which Stone designed in 1946 (it was completed in 1951) after a three-year hitch as a captain and major in the U.S. Army Air Forces in charge of designing air-base facilities. Faced with the commission for a hotel in the tropics. Stone chose the hilltop site two miles northeast of Panama City, decided to let the rooms air-condition themselves by making each one an open breezeway with its own cantilevered balcony. When Stone told Frank Lloyd Wright he was building a hotel without corridors, without windows and without doors, the shrewd old man opined...
...made such massive use of the arabesque grille façade that it has become his trademark. Says he: "I guess, subconsciously, I have been working up to this for a long time. You can see it in the walls as far back as the Goodyear house. El Panama Hotel is full of grilles and screens. I have come to the belief that the device of the grille is warranted in most parts of the U.S. I think it serves not only to satisfy a wistful yearning on the part of everyone for pattern, warmth and interest, but also serves...
...Peace. "I am more concerned over the Japanese situation than almost any other," T.R. said after the Treaty of Portsmouth. "Thank heaven we have the Navy in good shape." Into the White House trickled a stream of intelligence reports that Japan was preparing to attack the Philippines, or Panama, or both, indicating, too, that many European powers were not averse to balancing off new Japan against the emergent might...
...Punta Galera, 100 miles from the Colombia border, the young convict embraced the Herveys, kissed their hands in gratitude, then rode ashore with his friends and their loot in Valinda's launch. When they were gone, the yacht headed north to Panama. By week's end, Isabela's commandant reported that order had been restored. And, on the Ecuadorian mainland, ten of the Valinda's fugitive passengers were rounded...