Word: juan
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Many Routes, Few Flights. Trans Caribbean pioneered low-fare service between New York and San Juan; in 1958 it became the first and only U.S. airline to make the jump from non-sked to scheduled carrier. But in recent years it has lost so much traffic to Pan American and Eastern that it has been able to fill only 7.1% of its first-class seats and 58.5% of those in the coach section. Since 1968, Trans Caribbean has picked up new routes to the Virgin Islands, Haiti and the Netherlands Antilles. It has been unable to exploit these routes fully...
...became the C-5A. The two losers, Boeing and Pratt & Whitney, were eager to find a market for their rejected designs. Boeing's chief, William Allen, decided to risk what turned out to be $1 billion in turning the military reject into a commercial success. Pan American's founder, Juan Trippe, who had ordered the first 707s a decade before, was still in command. He backed Allen by placing the first order for 25 of the 747s and taking an option for more...
...That assessment had better be right, because Pan Am needs a major new success. Almost as soon as it started flying from Key West to Havana in 1927, Pan Am became the high and mighty among U.S. air carriers. Patrician Boss Juan Trippe maintained what was virtually his own state department to negotiate landing rights with foreign governments; at home, he had the political clout of a board of directors that has always included more former high Government and military officers than that of probably any other U.S. company. Among the current crew: Cyrus Vance, Alfred Gruenther, William Scranton...
Borges has never been a political figure, but he deplored the Nazi influence in his country during World War II. By 1946, his satiric comments on the pro-Fascist Argentine government and the accession of Juan Peron to power brought him a demotion from a state job as librarian to the post of chicken inspector in Buenos Aires. Today, at home, the aging poet's days are full of calm work and study. Lately he has received special assistance from a young American, Norman de Giovanni, who is translating all Borges' writing into English...