Word: chich
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Timely Roundup. Like Ike, "Chichí" Remón, 45, is a professional soldier. But since Panama had no army, he had to go abroad for his education, graduating as a cavalry officer from Mexico's Military College. Back in Panama, he entered the National Police (the nation's only armed force) as a captain. At U.S. invitation, he later attended the famed old cavalry school at Fort Riley, Kans., where he became a crack shot and a good friend of the U.S. Pearl Harbor time found Chichi in a position to do his friends of the north...
Higher Taxes. So far, Chichí Remón has managed to be Panama's best President in years. Panamanians, accustomed to seeing the public treasury drained in one way or another by elected officials, now tell themselves incredulously that he is "really trying to do something for Panama." He raised income taxes, previously a joke, by 50% in the higher brackets-and forbade the government to do business with anyone who could not produce a tax receipt. Now he has tackled the delicate job of rewriting Panama's relationship to the U.S., whose flag flies over...
...What Chichí seems to want now (though he has not said so officially) is a 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...
...undoubtedly prepared to concede something, and delegates from both countries have just begun negotiating in Washington. How much Panama gets in the end may depend a lot on just how tactful a pitch likable, English-speaking Chichí Remón was able to make to Ike at dinner this week...
Almost the same team which whipped Tufts, 30-6, before vacation, will make the trip. Tim Anderson will grapple in the heavyweight class, Ken Culbert in 177 pound, Chich Chandler in 167, and Bud Adams...