Word: panama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mayan got its second chance this June, when the Cuban freighter Aracelio Iglesia collided with a Norwegian ship near the Panama Canal and had to be towed to the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone for repairs. Again Mayan filed for attachment, again the Czech embassy intervened, and again-last month -the claim was dismissed...
...year after he became Farm Bureau president. Shuman was making his regular weekend trip home on the Panama Limited, and sat down in the dining car next to a grey-eyed blonde. The train lurched, the blonde headed for the floor, and Charlie caught her. They got to talking. Romance blossomed. She was Mabel Ervin, a farm girl from 90 miles north of Sullivan who was working as a legal secretary in Chicago and was also headed home for the weekend. They were married a year later, have a son, Freedom Fighter (j.g.) George, 8, a carbon copy...
...been promoted to Under Secretary of State, it is Mann whom the President phones, not infrequently at midnight, to talk Latin America. Last week Vaughn, a onetime professional boxer and teacher who rose through the civil service to become Peace Corps administrator in Latin America and Ambassador to Panama, set about establishing his own primacy...
...showed himself to be an articulate Administration spokesman, with a special competence for the farming affairs that are a major concern of the Alliance for Progress. "I'm the son of a cowboy," explains Vaughn, who was born and raised in Columbus, Mont. He had been known in Panama as "the peasant ambassador"; after he put in an exhausting week in farmers' fields all the way from Mexico to Chile, the label seemed more appropriate than ever. Inevitably, there were formal encounters with Presidents and Cabinet ministers, but the restless, inquisitive Vaughn everywhere preferred to seek out campesinos...
...almost flawless Spanish with farmers in a corn patch outside Mexico City. In El Salvador, he was charmed to hear members of a pick-up band tootle The Star-Spangled Banner, which they had learned by ear from a Peace Corpsman, who had whistled it for three days. In Panama, he visited an Alliance-financed grade school and attended a dinner honoring the fourth anniversary of the Alliance, which he heads as part of his assignment...