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...spectators watched and bands played, the Panamanian and U.S. flags rose last week for the first time, side by side, on newly set, identical poles over a Canal Zone plaza. Thus fulfilled was President Eisenhower's order to give evidence of Panama's "titular sovereignty" over the zone. Nationalist Rabble-Rouser Aquilino Boyd, who led last November's anti-American riots, expressed "jubilation...
...18th, liberation from Spain on the 28th. Last November Panamanian nationalists twice made bloody attempts to invade the Canal Zone and plant the Panamanian flag there. The following month President Eisenhower agreed that the flag should indeed fly as "visual evidence that Panama does have titular sovereignty" over the U.S.-occupied Zone, but the House of Representatives voted a resolution against letting the Panamanian flag be flown in the Zone. Last week, with Congress adjourned and another November looming, Ike ruled that Panama's flag of red, white and blue squares will henceforth fly daily with the U.S. flag...
Nine months ago Prime Minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd ordered a nation wide referendum (whites only) to convert South Africa into a republic. He, like almost everyone else, expected a majority of South African voters on Oct. 5 to endorse his plans to depose Queen Elizabeth II as titular chief of state. But last week, as Verwoerd's Afrikaner-dominated Na tional Party convened in dusty Bloemfontein under the proposed republican flag (with an R for Republiek in place of the Union Jack), his chances of winning a solid victory in the referendum were looking much less bright...
...Nice Man." As cops got the story, Eric and his older brother, Jean-Philippe, 7, were on an outing to Paris' exclusive Saint-Cloud Golf Club with Grandfather Jean-Pierre Peugeot, 63, titular head of the $40 million empire. While Grandpère played golf, the children were in the care of a nursemaid at the club playground. The maid felt chilly, went back to the car for a wrap and a chat with the Peugeot chauffeur. Ten minutes later, the nurse noticed that Eric was missing. A "nice man" had appeared, whispered "Come" to Eric...
...Pruess, onetime underwear salesman, made an unannounced business call at the home of Cinemermaid Esther Williams near Santa Monica. His proposition: a partnership to mass-produce swimming pools at prices the average homeowner could afford. Esther Williams would give her name to the pools, promote them, serve as titular president of the company, and get 5% of the gross. Pruess would run the company, provide the initial $50,000 capital and own the stock. Before the afternoon was over, the International Swimming Pool Corp. was launched...