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...Magloire, who had eluded arrest three weeks earlier by having himself smuggled into the Mexican embassy rolled up in a rug, received a safe-conduct from the President and flew off to Mexico. Three lesser oppositionists, like Hérard charged with plotting to overthrow the government, left the Panamanian embassy and headed for Cuba. But 25 others, caught by the cops, still languished in jail...
...busiest weeks since he took office, President Eisenhower also received President Remón of Panama (who brought Panamanian Indian costumes for the Eisenhower grandchildren), Crown Prince Olav of Norway, and Chiang Kai-shek's eldest son, Lieut. General Chiang Ching-kuo (who presented him with a Formosan edition of his book, Crusade in Europe). He also got a 7 ft., 200-lb. pop-eyed halibut from Representative Thor Tollefson of Washington State. "Gee whiz," said the President when he met the monster fish on a porch bordering the Rose Garden, "I've never seen such...
...fairer annual rent. Possible asking price: $1,000,000, or a percentage of the canal's tolls (now running around $37 million a year). Chichí also would like the Canal Zone to curb some of its business activities (notably, commissaries for its employees) to help competing Panamanian commerce...
Jose A. Cajar Escala, editor of a Panamanian weekly, and staff reporter on Panama City's largest daily, the Panama-American, was comparing the qualities of journalism in the United States and his own country...
...also noted that while Panamanian newspapers are generally independently run, they take up the cudgels for one political party, and exclude all news about its opposition...