Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazil, Chile and Peru, U.S. Ambassador to the OAS John Dreier proposed a conference of the 21 foreign ministers to examine the "grave situation" in the Caribbean "on a broad front." Dreier recalled that in three months the OAS had met twice before to study threats to peace (in Panama and Nicaragua), and that dealing with each squall as it broke out was "futile." Understood but unsaid: that the trouble will continue as long as Castro keeps exporting revolution. And, Dreier warned, "Communists have attempted, and with some success, to infiltrate those revolutionary movements...
...every word at the Senate Communications Subcommittee hearing. There was much at stake for Homer A. Tomlinson, 66, the general overseer of the Church of God sect and self-proclaimed king of the world. He intends to run for President of the U.S. again in 1960 (his big white Panama campaign hat was at his side), and the subcommittee was struggling to find a way to keep Homer and other splinter candidates from claiming-and getting-as much time on newscasts as Republican and Democratic candidates...
Over the years, the Geographic has compiled a roll call of contributors, lecturers and explorers that scans like a picket fence of U.S. history: Robert E. Peary (to whose 1906 assault on the North Pole the society contributed $1,000), Colonel George W. Goethals (who built the Panama Canal and told Geographic members all about it), Wilbur Wright, Teddy Roosevelt, Charles Lindbergh, Richard Byrd, Billy Mitchell (who propounded his theory of airpower in the March 1921 issue), "Hap" Arnold, Chester Nimitz, Arthur Radford. Equally impressive is the Magazine's current board of trustees, e.g., U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice...
Died. James Zetek, 72, entomologist who spent 36 years studying the behavior of termites on Barro Colorado Island (a haven for biological study that he helped found in the Panama Canal Zone), discovered a species of termite that could gnaw through 5 in. of concrete; of pneumonia; in Panama...
Headquarters for most companies were in the Lanai suites of the Americana hotel. There the lordly jocks drifted from backslapper to backslapper, soaked up booze from novel dispensers-Panama Records had a machine with faucets for martinis and Manhattans. And everywhere a D.J. went, record company promoters kept telling him: "Without you we're dead...