Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excitement was in anticipation of this week's pan-African "summit" conference of some 30 African heads of state. Never before had so many leaders of Africa sat down in the same place at the same time, and their proud host, the aging (70) Ethiopian Emperor, was out at the airport in person with his green-and-black Rolls-Royce to greet many of his illustrious guests, including Liberia's President William V. Shadrach Tubman, who arrived five days early so as to squeeze in a state visit...
...constrictors and poisoned arrows, the White Rajah lived only for his handsome, amiable people. In 1848 he was knighted by Her Britannic Majesty, and in 1864 Britain recognized his raj. He died a bachelor in 1868 and was succeeded by his nephew Charles, who ruled for 50 years. Ranee Pan. The rajah who brought Sarawak into the modern world was Charles Brooke's son, who took over in 1917. In the more humdrum world of the 20th century, witty, Cambridge-educated Sir Charles Vyner Brooke became even more of a legend than his predecessors. He issued his own stamps...
...scene at Miami International Air port was sadly familiar. A Pan American DC-6B rolled to a halt, and TV cameras panned in as 115 refugees filed from the plane. But these passengers were from Franç Duvalier's Haiti - not Castro's Cuba-and they were the first of 1,300 U.S. citizens advised by the State Department to leave because of continued deterioration on the small Caribbean island. In a week of urgent diplomatic maneuver and in an atmosphere of violence and vengeance, everyone waited to see whether the dictator who calls himself "Papa Doc" would...
While granted but a few lines, Thomas Oxnard as the servant is quite equal to the leads in comic skill. His dead-pan contrasts sharply with the gyrations of his employers, practically guaranteeing a laugh every time he opens his mouth...
...tale invites comparison with those classics of darkened childhood, Richard Hughes's High Wind in Jamaica and William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Novelist Gloag has named his adult villain Captain Hook, presumably after J. M. Barrie's piratical menace in Peter Pan. One does not have to believe in fairies, however, to give cold credence to the awful reality of Gloag's matriolatrous, patricidal tribe of tots...