Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they were watching the ceremonious cleanup, a hired man-or what most of the reporters at first took to be a hired man-ambled up to see what was going on. He was dressed in blue slacks, a blue denim sports shirt, white rubber-soled shoes, and a floppy Panama straw hat with its brim set at a rakish angle. In a quick doubletake, the reporters recognized the nation's best-known part-time farmer. After greeting his guests genially, Dwight Eisenhower approvingly examined the heifer, the gift of the Montgomery County (Md.) Fair, and asked...
...escaped execution as an American spy. To prove his English nationality, he flashed Villa an orthodox Guardsman's salute and sang God Save the King-whereupon Villa delightedly conscripted Mike for ten months' service as a guerrilla leader. But Mike was soon heading south again for gleaming Panama Bay and the 20-ton yacht Cara. He spent years prowling the jungles and deep-sea fishing grounds with his like-minded ally, Lady Mabs, who made a hit as a healer by dosing the tribesmen with Epsom salts ("Most primitive tribes suffer from constipation...
...tour progressed, the musicians in Panama hats, sport shirts and shorts, began to look less and less like a symphony orchestra. Most of them bought cameras and camera equipment in the PXs; some went about festooned with three cameras. So avid was the search for souvenirs that the airplane pilots would kid them: "Just tell us the next time you guys are going to buy another 2,000 Ibs. of stuff so we can get lighter by feathering the props...
...Appropriations bills included $32 billion for the Defense Department, $466 million for the State and Justice Departments and the federal judiciary, $2.3 billion for military construction, and $1.2 billion for the Commerce Department, the Panama Canal Zone and the St. Lawrence Seaway Corp...
...University of Rochester's George Hoyt Whipple, 76, Nobel laureate and for 32 years the kindly dean of the medical school. The son and grandson of physicians, Whipple earned his own M.D. at Johns Hopkins, worked for a while as a pathologist in Panama shortly after the start of William Gorgas' antimalaria campaign; after serving as a professor at the University of California, he went to Rochester in 1921 as head of a school that was still only a bleak patch of earth. An awesome but beloved figure ("When he comes into a classroom,'' a student...