Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adenauer, a reluctant Charles de Gaulle gave Air France the green light to begin negotiating final terms with its proposed partners: Germany's Lufthansa, Belgium's Sabena and Italy's Alitalia. When Air Union at last comes into existence, it will boast more aircraft (322) than Pan Am (123) and TWA (160) combined and will fly an estimated 350,000 route miles, v. 93,000 for the two U.S. overseas giants...
...through a song that pictured the saint as a call girl; then she turned up in some Egyptian gauze and launched into Cleo, the Nympho of the Nile, ending with a belly dance that would have fazed Farouk. Snorted one of the critics giving the show a universal pan: "Aside from getting 'A' for anatomy and 'E' for effrontery, Miss Prowse should do herself a favor: forget her career and take Frank Sinatra up on his marriage proposal...
...these 25,000-and the countless thousands more in other new buildings, plus those who come to do business with them-that are posing a problem for New York as big as the Pan Am Building itself. For New York is a tidal city, and the tide is human...
Monster Octagon. What this means for New York may be examined in terms of that still-unfinished midtown giant, the Pan American Building, an elongated octagon that stands athwart Park Avenue between the Grand Central Terminal and the once proud Grand Central Building, now diminished to a small shadow against the looming white concrete slab of the Pan...
...Pan Am claims to be the "world's largest commercial office building." (On the grounds that the Pentagon is not commercial and Chicago's Merchandise Mart is an exhibition hall as well as an office building.) It will have 2,400,000 sq. ft. of rentable space-400,000 more than the Empire State Building, though it is only 59 stories high to the Empire State's 102. No building ever had a more accessible location; it can be reached by train, car, subway, taxi, air. Its roof will be a heliport equipped to handle 25-passenger...