Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supercommittee of personal representatives of the Presidents of the Americas, proposed at Panama last July by President Eisenhower to guide the Americas toward greater "material welfare and progress," met for the first time last week in Washington. The idea men chose Milton Eisenhower, Ike's brother and representative, as their chairman, assigned themselves study tasks, set their next meeting for January. Most notable development: Chairman Eisenhower's promise that the U.S. will join in a plan to train Latin Americans in atomic-energy techniques at the Spanish-language University of Puerto Rico. But the atom's promise...
...White House Acts. At 1 a.m. U.S. Ambassador Thomas Whelan, a poker-playing personal friend of Somoza, got the news and urgently notified Washington. The White House moved fast. A radio flash to the Panama Canal Zone awakened U.S. doctors, ordered them to fly to Nicaragua. A U.S. helicopter took off to whisk the wounded President back to Managua, the Nicaraguan capital, at first light. Then President Eisenhower, who met Somoza at last July's conference of Presidents in Panama, sent off another plane from Washington carrying Major General Leonard D. Heaton, commanding officer at Walter Reed Hospital...
...base of the spine. The doctor's recommendation was an operation at the Canal Zone's famed Gorgas Hospital. At 3 a.m. a blue ambulance crept through the lonely, moonlit streets of Managua. Only four hours after Heaton's Constellation reached Managua, it was headed toward Panama with Somoza, his wife, and the task force of doctors. At Gorgas four surgeons, including Heaton, worked for four hours and 20 minutes removing the bullets in the thigh and near the spine...
AMONG the world's great waterways the mighty Mississippi, Germany's strategic Kiel Canal, the vital Panama and troubled Suez are all familiar names. But one waterway with more importance than fame is a muddy, undramatic complex of barge canals and shallow channels rambling 1,116 miles around the U.S. Gulf Coast from Brownsville, Texas to St. Marks, Fla. It is the Intracoastal Waterway, tying the entire Gulf Coast area into the nation's vast, 28,000-mile system of waterways. For Southerners it is a chief reason for the greatest boom in Gulf Coast history...
...firmest support possible would be a proposal from the United States to put all similar international waterways under a special type of international control. Outright ownership and operation would remain with the nation involved--Egypt in the case of Suez, the United States in Panama, Germany in the Kiel Canal--but an independent body, similar to this country's Interstate Commerce Commission, would be chartered under the United Nations to fix maximum rates and minimum standards of operation. This body would act also as a board of arbitration for any complaints--with the General Assembly as the final appeal group...