Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dispute first arose last spring when the NCAA created its Federation to challenge the AAU's control of amateur track. At stake is the power to control the selection of candidates for the Olympic and Pan-American games. The AAU has always set the qualifications for participation in the tryouts for both events...
...worst failing is the character of Lawrence himself. It's not that he is unhistorical (this may well be true): he is unbelievable. A curious amalgam of Joan of Arc and Alcibiades, this Lawrence passes through a succession of fatuous poses. He begins as a simple pacifist pan-Arab fanatic, and through a hilarious concatenation of Grade B events (he is forced to shoot two intimate friends and watch a third sink smoothly into quickland) comes to realize that his mission will involve him in shedding blood. This, however, comes rather to appeal to him ("I enjoyed it, I enjoyed...
...Kennedy has been lucky. Despite all Allied protests he has been for the Congo expedition from the start, and his tenacity has finally begun to pay off. Although he has made dimly glimpsed alternatives absolutely impossible, he has put himself in a position to cash side bets on gaining pan-African esteem. But this week remains crucial. He and U Thant will have lost everything all over again unless they realize that the Thant plan can only be temporarily satisfactory. Having nearly washed Mr. Tshombe down the drain, they must now help see to it that the problem of federating...
...Pan Am's clipper Sam Houston landed at 6:10 p.m. at Florida's Homestead Air Force Base. A dozen ambulances waited near by. Dr. Lee C. Watkins, chief of the U.S. Quarantine Station in Miami, ran up the ramp, peered in at the plane's 107 passengers, and groaned: "My God, yellow jaundice-all of them." Then he realized that the lights bathing the area made everyone appear a sickly yellow. The passengers filed stiffly out of the aircraft, then melted in the laughing, tearful, incredulous realization of freedom. Cried Carlos Leon, the first...
Endangered Dream. Trippe's proposal seems sure to be approved both by Pan Am stockholders and TWA trustees. It also seems to be agreeable to New York Congressman Emanuel Celler, whose Judiciary Committee deals with such matters. It is less certain that it will be approved by President Kennedy, who has final voice in the matter, since the merger involves overseas routes. And even if the White House agrees, Trippe's dream may still be smashed by Howard Hughes, who has no love for the Pan Am boss. Already suing to get his TWA shares back, Hughes...