Word: panama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Besides all the examples you gave in "The Barrendipity Game" [Jan. 28], we found no Eskimo Pies in Eskimoland, no canaries in the Canary Islands, no Siamese cats in Siam, no Maltese cats in Malta, and discovered that Panama hats are not made in Panama. So my husband suggested checking the Virgin Islands...
DECISIONS Boston Stamp Dealer Henry Harris took one look at the $2 sheet of 50 com memorative Panama Canal Zone stamps and figured that he had made at least a $100,000 find. The Thatcher Ferry Bridge, which was what the commemoration was all about, had somehow failed to show up in the engraving. There were three other misprinted sheets that had not been sold, but embarrassed Zone officials decided to print more, Harris' saturate dreams of the market philatelic and ruin treasure. They were taking their cue from one time Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who had highhandedly...
After assigning Shriver to the war on poverty, the Great Society program nearest his own heart, Johnson named as Peace Corps director Jack Hood Vaughn, 45, former U.S. Ambassador to Panama and, since March 1965, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Before his ambassadorial assignment, Vaughn had directed the Peace Corps' Latin American program and will now, as Johnson said it, "return to his first love." 149 Victories. A slight (5 ft. 8 in., 150 lbs.), combative redhead, Vaughn was reared in Michigan, where he spent so much of his youth boxing that he did not graduate...
After graduating from the University of Michigan, Vaughn enlisted in the Marine Corps, was twice wounded on Okinawa, and was eventually discharged as a captain. He earned his master's degree at the University of Michigan in 1941, then spent ten years in Bolivia, Costa Rica and Panama as a U.S. Information Service officer and coordinator of U.S. aid projects. In 1961, Shriver grabbed him. Says Vaughn: "The Peace Corps idea had great appeal to me, and the people I knew who were putting this idea into effect appealed to me even more...
Gone, Overnight. One top sport-fishing hole so far seems safe: Panama's Piñas Bay (TIME, July 10, 1964), where hundreds of marlin and thousands of sailfish were boated last year. Maybe the commercial fishermen were too busy elsewhere. Off Montauk Point, N.Y., where a favorite sport is fishing for sharks, commercial fishermen have practically eliminated the scrappy and tasty porbeagle. The pressure is growing at Maryland's "Jack Spot," the summer home of the tough little (world's record: 161 lbs.) white marlin. Until commercials showed up in the Jack Spot last summer...