Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were the sounds picked up by Western airline pilots heading into Berlin: on their radios, they heard occasional interfering signals, as if the Communists were testing jamming devices to knock out the planes' radio navigation. Some crews reported East German searchlights on them. And one afternoon last week, Pan American's Flight No. 609, flying well in the center of the northern corridor to Hamburg, spotted a Soviet MIG-17 fighter with six rockets under each wing soaring 200 ft. off the airliner's right wingtip. "He just sat there, where all the passengers could...
Wayward Jets. The West was ready with its own countermeasures. The U.S. Air Force supplied navigational gadgets to help foil the jammers, and airline pilots were going through courses last week to learn their use; already the equipment was being installed by Pan Am on the DC-6Bs it employs on the Berlin run. Plans were being discussed to slap restrictions on planes of Communist airlines on Western routes if trouble comes. And there was another way to combat obstruction of the airlanes: armed fighter escorts to fly alongside the commercial aircraft, ready to defend them with gunfire if necessary...
Last week Peter Pan Foundations, Inc. was proudly claiming to have achieved a breakthrough-a bra without any seams at all. The secret is in a new drip-dry Chemstrand nylon fiber, which, once molded, holds its shape forever. To make the bra, the lace cloth is laid over a metal replica of a well-shaped bosom. Another form, hollowed out like an Iron Maiden, clamps down and presses the cloth against the model bosom. (Most bras are cut to size 34B, the great average U.S. measurement.) When the process is complete, the curve is permanently molded into the material...
...turbulent continent. What happens in the vast north of Asia soon reverberates in Malaya. Though temporarily cowed, a few Communists still try to burrow their way into trade unions and political parties, waiting their chance to try a comeback. On Malaya's east coast fanatic Moslems in the Pan Malayan Islamic Party preach Malay race supremacy over the Chinese. Any downward plunge of the economy-always a possibility should there be a precipitous drop in world rubber or tin prices-would strengthen the extremists. "All this implies a state of balance so precarious.'' says U.S. Far Eastern...
...most ominous threat yet. Moscow, taking on an outraged tone, sent harsh notes to Washington, London and Paris, accusing the West of violating the 1945 Berlin access agreement by allowing West German government officials to fly the Berlin air corridors along routes that for years have been used by Pan American, British European Airways and Air France, as well as by Allied military craft. "All kinds of revanchists (revenge seekers), extremists, saboteurs and spies are being transferred from the Federal Republic of Germany to West Berlin" by this means, Moscow growled...