Word: ams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leo Leavitt is the kind of promoter who gives U.S. promoters a bad name. Stocky, brash and 53, Leo blew into Australia proclaiming: "I am the world's greatest promoter." Representing Western Promotions of San Francisco, he promptly made headlines by offering Aussie Miler Herb Elliott a fantastic $250...
At a series of raucous cocktail-lounge press conferences in Sydney. Leo downed double Scotches, tickled giggling waitresses, and made wildly conflicting statements about Elliott ("He's a sonofabitch . . . I love the guy"). He pursued Elliott to Melbourne, on arrival handed newsmen a classically misspelled statement. It attacked the...
Pan American World Airways last week discharged some 5% of its 5,400 Latin American Division employees. Chief reason: "A runaway competitive situation in Latin America." Another carrier operating in Latin America, Panagra. last month asked the U.S. for a yearly $6,800,000 subsidy,* citing the drop in passenger...
Almost every Latin American country boasts its own airline, and some have two or three. Most of the carriers are not members-as are Pan Am and Panagra-of the International Air Transport Association, which taboos price warfare. The local airlines set fares as they please, often undercut Pan Am...
Not on Tiptoe. Angelo Giuseppe Cardinal Roncalli, Patriarch of Venice, was elected as a compromise candidate, at least compared to Pius XII, who was chosen unanimously in less than 24 hours. Vatican insiders are reconstructing the three voting days of the conclave, with their suspenseful smoke signals, this way: two...