Word: panama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early rising is a great way to beat the heat--not as fashionable a way as sporting a Panama shirt, but more effective. The following courses should be cool and refreshing...
Died. Ray Smith, 54, Dallas oilman and devoted sportsman, a railroad fireman's son who built a $75 million fortune by parlaying a two-pump gas station into a rich drilling and trucking operation-and then put fishermen everywhere in his debt with another natural resource, Panama's Pinas Bay, where, starting in 1963, he spent some $2,000,000 to turn an isolated patch of Pacific coastline into the handsome Club de Pesca de Panama, which, with its own amphibious plane service and a 15-boat fleet, opened the world's greatest marlin grounds to thousands...
...their separate ways. But such was the mood of camaraderie that marked the Punta del Este conference that they have already begun to communicate with each other in a way that bodes well for the goal of building a Latin American common market. After leaving Punta del Este, Panama's Marco Robles traveled last week with Argentina's Juan Carlos Ongania to Buenos Aires for a twelve-hour personal visit. On his way home to Bogota, Colombia's Carlos Lleras Restrepo stopped over in La Paz to deliver a message to President René Barrientos...
...successful ones rarer still. Simon Bolivar organized the first one in 1826 to press for a federation of Latin American countries, but gave up in despair when only four nations deigned to send delegates. Dwight Eisenhower gathered 19 Latin American heads of state at a summit meeting in Panama City in 1956, but his pleas for hemispheric solidarity were almost drowned out by cries for more U.S. aid funds. This week, as President Johnson flew southward to meet with the Presidents of 19-Latin American republics, there were grounds for hope that the biggest conference of all might produce some...
However, Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck of Urban Government, attacked the "whole conceptual scheme of translating the Panama situation to Boston. "You don't have to be a left-wing nursemaid," he told his fellow-panelists. He classified the Barrio Group's work as "a fashionable game for certain Harvard students to play." Even Lodge's work warranted his saying that "maybe the Panamanians should be left to figure out their own political destiny...