Word: pan
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...searched bus stations and railway terminals. But towering (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ibs.), affable Nelson Mandela sped from one hideout to another. Often he telephoned newspapers with defiant statements against the government; once he even gave a television interview to the BBC. Last February he traveled to a Pan-African congress in Addis Ababa and returned unnoticed...
...painting divides into two epochs: before and after the Armory Show of 1913. That year, from the vaulted bastion of Manhattan's 69th Regiment, Marcel Duchamp's stroboscopic Nude Descending a Staircase strode jerkily into public awareness; Tin Pan Alley came up with That Futuristic Rag; and the nation was swept up in a fever of excitement over something called Modern Art. Of the many artists who rallied behind this great debut of modernism, one stands as the prime mover: Arthur Bowen Davies...
...speaker of the Chamber of Deputies; by age 30, he was Minister of the Interior. In 1945, when President Alfonso Lopez resigned in a dispute with Congress, Lleras. by then Foreign Minister, was tapped to serve out the term.His next job was in Washington, as head of the ineffectual Pan American Union. During seven years, Lleras, almost singlehanded, transformed it into today's far stronger Organization of American States, whose charter he largely wrote...
...also a builder. As of last week he was deeply involved in the financing and construction of $700 million worth of buildings, ranging from a 23-story Hilton Hotel in London to a Barclays Bank in South Africa. Largest and proudest of these is the 59-story Pan Am Building, now climbing above Manhattan's Grand Central Station, for which Cotton supplied $25 million of the $100 million cost; he will manage the finished building. Cotton remembers the ground-breaking with special pride. "It was a great thrill," he says, "seeing the Union Jack flying beside the Stars...
Sheb Wooley: That's My Pa and That's My Ma (M-G-M). Saga songs by one of Nashville's slickest practitioners. Composer (Purple People Eater) Wooley often sounds closer to Tin Pan Alley than to the hills, but his triple-tongued comic turns-Google Eye, Sweet Chile-have their own daffy, off-center charm...