Word: pan
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...Saudi Arabia. Then came last month's Iraqi revolution and the overthrow of Kassem. No one could blame Egypt's leader for harking back to old dreams of Arab grandeur, for this new man in Baghdad-President Abdul Salam Aref-was a former Nasser protege dedicated to Pan-Arab unity...
...wages and heavy government subsidies for strictly commercial planemaking. The French Caravelle and to a lesser degree the British Comet and Viscount and the Dutch F-27 Friendship have made some inroads into what used to be almost an exclusively American market. There may be more important inroads soon. Pan American is quietly negotiating with Britain's Hawker Siddeley to buy at least 40 DH-125 jets, which it intends to man with its pilots and lease to corporations. Originally, Pan Am intended to use Lockheed JetStars, but the DH-125, at $550,000, costs only one-third...
...Space Administration funds. By the time the U.S. has a supersonic transport ready, the Anglo-French consortium may already have captured a readymade customer: a planned Air Union of the Common Market's five airlines that envisages using standard equipment. Since such big U.S. international flag carriers as Pan American and TWA could hardly let their foreign competitors corner deliveries of the Anglo-French plane, U.S. airlines might find themselves having to order their supersonics from abroad...
Parker, 28, rowed for three years on the University of Pennsylvania varsity. He took up sculling after graduating in 1957 and won the national single sculls championship and a gold medal in the Pan-American Games in 1959. He repeated as national champion in 1960 and went on to represent the United States in the Rome Olympics...
...more than 1,000 songs for Broadway musicals; after a long illness; in Manhattan. As a student at Knox College, Ill., his way with words once made William Jennings Bryan weep, and as a successful Manhattan adman he coined such slogans as "Built, Not Stuffed" for Ostermoor mattresses. Tin Pan Alley did not hear his first song until he was in his mid-30s, but then in 1908 he wrote "Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine," and during the next 30 years teamed up with Vincent Youmans, Sigmund Romberg, Jerome Kern and Rudolf Friml. Among his hits: "One Alone...