Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Revolvers banged noisily, men scuffled in the streets, gay young Negroes beat out tropical rhythms on car fenders. Someone cut the telegraph wire to the interior. It was Sunday and Voting Day; in the first of six major elections in Latin America this year, Panama was choosing a President and a congress. Some 300,000 Spanish-descended hotbloods, dusty-footed Indian women and black West Indians lined up to deposit ballots marked (to aid the illiterate) with party symbols: a bell, a horseman, an ear of corn. Then, as a double precaution against double voting, each digged his fingers...
Through the day, at a campaign headquarters in an open-air beer garden, pistol-packing radio announcers claimed victory for a jowly man in a sweat-soaked sport shirt who stomped up & down among the tables: Candidate José Antonio Remón, once commander and still boss of Panama's only armed force, the 3,300-man National Police. Actually, because Panamanians count votes at their leisure (after the last election they took three months), "Chichi" Remón would not know the exact tally for weeks. But behind Chichi were his cops, the government, control of most...
...bearing the hopeful sign "White House, Washington, D.C.," a high-school band tootled Dixie. More than 250,000 Georgians, lined along the city's sidewalks and gazing out of windows, applauded as a hawk-beaked man in a blue Cadillac convertible smiled and waved his white Panama hat. It was Georgia's own Senator Dick Russell, the Southern Democrats' choice, come home to start his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination...
...colonel's son who went inevitably to West Point (class of '17), Ridgway has served peacetime stints in China, Nicaragua, the Panama Canal Zone, the Philippines, Brazil, the Caribbean Command area, and at the United Nations. No stranger to Europe, he led 82nd Airborne paratroopers in World War II and there picked up his familiar hallmark-a grenade hung ready for throwing, on his combat harness. In the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, he served under Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery, who will now be his deputy commander at SHAPE. Monty says he is "delighted...
...Panama. Having made or broken four Presidents, Panama's Strong Man "Chichi" Remón expects to be elected to the presidency himself next month...