THE HEMISPHERE: The Commuters

Some notable commuters to & from Latin America and eternity were beset by notable vicissitudes last week.

In Panama, there were low mutterings of "Qué horror!" (Outrageous!). From Havana, Trygve Lie cabled apologies. On his whirl through the Antilles and Central America, he had missed a banquet tossed for him by the Lions Club in Panama City's swank Union Club. Some 133 guests, including the entire diplomatic corps, the entire Panamanian Cabinet, the presidents of the National Assembly and Supreme Court, waited more than an hour before deciding that the U.N. Secretary-General...

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