Word: flock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deputy prison warden and a zoologist. Little has been heard from Ferdinand Waldo Demara since Tony Curtis portrayed him in the 1961 film The Great Impostor. Now he has turned up as the pastor of a small Baptist Church on an island in Puget Sound, near Seattle. His flock of 30 has heard rumors about the Rev. Dr. Fred Demara, as he styles himself, but finds him "a tremendous...
...enough, the company is already experiencing more than its share of turbulence. Last year it lost an estimated $23 million, $7 million in the month of November alone. It is getting much tougher competition from archrival Trans World Airlines on the North Atlantic route, and it faces a flock of new competitors on transpacific routes that it once all but monopolized. Now, with the 747, Pan Am is taking one of the larger risks in business history. It has committed $1 billion to buy 33 of the jumbo jets and create the facilities to handle them. The company is staking...