Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexicans were more enthusiastic. They were among the first to arrive at Baden-Baden, spent five days buttonholing committee members in the corridors. On presentation day, they flashed Cinerama shots of stadiums, swimming pools and sports centers used in the 1955 Pan American Games, and displayed a model of the 110,000-seat stadium under construction. They promised to charge athletes only $2.80 a day for room and board? lower than Detroit-and crowds would be no problem for their tourist-oriented city. And what about the 7,400-ft. altitude? Snorted a Bulgarian delegate: "Horses never have trouble...
What Have I Done? All three news men were heading for an Oct. 16 rendezvous in Manila, a date that coincided with the inaugural passenger flight of Pan American's China Clipper to the U.S. But Scripps-Howard's Ekins, sneaking into town first, talked his way aboard a test run and got safely home while Kilgallen and Kieran were still in Manila...
...made-in-the-U.S. supersonic, and the result was an unseemly squabble. Trans World Airlines President Charles Tillinghast was the first to announce that he had placed an order. But American Airlines President C. R. Smith contended that he had telegraphed an order four days earlier, and Pan American's Juan Trippe argued that he, too, had ordered planes before TWA. TWA, at least, was first to send along a check, as a $600,000 down payment on six planes. Only later did Pan Am send a check and American offer to. The only one of the four...
Indeed, by the time she stepped off a Pan American jet from Paris, wearing a brown ao-dai, the lions were really roaring. In the Senate, Ohio Democrat Stephen Young blasted her as "arrogant" and "viciously anti-American." At a Cleveland banquet, Ohio's Democratic Congressman Wayne Hays growled, "It's bad enough that every two-bit dictator around the world reviles and insults the U.S. at will, but it is too much to let this comic-strip Dragon Lady do it under our very noses." One high State Department official, noting that Mme. Nhu had been invited...
...husband and wife, Moray Watson and Geraldine McEwan strike precise discords. Barry Foster's vibrant Cristoforou is a more remarkable and indefinable creation, a Pan in spiv's clothing sounding pipes of pleasure that carry a lingering echo from ancient pagan groves...