Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alerted by Pierce's pencil, the editors found that their map had somehow lost its bearings entirely. Missouri was where Arkansas should be; West Virginia was labeled Maryland; New Jersey displaced Delaware; Costa Rica had swallowed up Panama. A staff artist had slapped the map together with little care and editors had approved it with less attention. The News was faced with a problem that haunts many an editor: a serious error in an early run section...
Nattily rigged in a Panama hat, General Douglas MacArthur led his wife and 19-year-old son Arthur (who will be a sophomore at Columbia) 30 blocks from their Manhattan apartment to a hotel ballroom rented by Sperry Rand, the firm he heads as board chairman. There, for an hour and a quarter, Five-Star Taxpayer MacArthur lectured stockholders on the evils of confiscatory taxes: "The present tax structure is probably adequate to socialize the United States. The budget is but the guesswork of a small group of individuals, temporarily gathered in Washington, whose previous training and experience has little...
...last week over NBC, the Buick Motor Division of General Motors forked out about $250,000. What it got for its money was as distasteful as the fight itself. Between rounds, a glassy-eyed young pitchman trundled before the viewing public one dull, lumpy Buick "salesman" after another. Wearing Panama hats, they muttered mostly about this being a dandy time to get a good deal on a Buick. The clincher came at the fight's crucial moment. As Referee Ruby Goldstein snaffled the bludgeoned Jackson away from his opponent and signaled a TKO, Buick butted in, sealing...
...time, at least -remained calm. At the National Palace, where the dead President lay in state, military-academy cadets stood guard while a three-block line of mourners filed past. President Eisenhower, who received Castillo Armas in the hospital in Denver and renewed the acquaintance while visiting Panama, called the death "a great loss to his own nation and to the entire free world. President Castillo Armas was a personal friend of mine." Ike announced that Major John Eisenhower will represent him at the funeral this week...
...Panama Canal Zone, scene of modern medicine's victory over malaria, has reported 67 cases since June 1. Partly explained by a drought that has turned lakes into shallow, mosquito-breeding pud-dies, the outbreak is largely due to changes in control measures in surrounding Republic of Panama. ¶ Britain, which allows narcotics addicts to receive small maintenance doses legally and cheaply, reported only 333 known addicts. Medical professions supplied a whopping 30% of them: 77 doctors, 20 nurses, two dentists...