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...away with anarchy." said Jose Antonio ("Chichi") Remón, explaining why he ran for President of Panama in 1952. As the country's strongman police chief he had watched five men try to govern Panama during the span of one normal presidential term, had reluctantly turned a couple of the failures out of office at gunpoint. President Remón brought order out of disorder, and Panama found the sensation so pleasant that it marked him down as almost indispensable. But last week Remón lay dead, and something like a relapse into anarchy plainly threatened...
Died. José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón, 46, President of Panama since 1952, prior to that his country's president-making police chief; at the hands of machine-gunning assassins, at Juan Franco race track outside Panama City...
...Jeeves is imperturbably ready with a Latin quip ("'Rem acu tetigisti,' which might be rendered by the American colloquialism, 'You said a mouthful' "), historical precedents ("In the words of Pliny the Younger . . .") and unobtrusive counsel ("Had I been aware that your lordship was in the habit of sleeping in mauve pajamas, I would have advised against it"). Author Wodehouse promises not to let this great mind lie fallow for so long again...
...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...
...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...