Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actor Whitman plays Vivaldi on a penny whistle and tries to look like Pan, but unhappily he looks more like Peter Pan. Juliet Prowse looks like Leslie Caron with muscles and, perhaps because she is a native of South Africa, also looks ashamed of the mess she's in. Massey is gassy. The only object of real interest on the screen is Rafer Johnson, the Olympic decathlon champion, here appearing in his big Hollywood role. Most of the time...
...first telephone call to the White House got the idea across. ''Looks like we've got another one.'' cried a Federal Aviation Agency official. "A Pan Am out of Mexico City. We'll call you back as soon as we have the details.'' Five calls to the President on that day last week fleshed out the details: four minutes out of Mexi co City, while southbound for Guatemala City with 81 aboard, a four-jet Pan American World Airways DC-8 had been "skyjacked" by a lone gunman and ordered to turn...
...raided the Chemstrand Corp.'s Empire State Building offices and smeared display posters with black paint in protest against a new fiber that, he said, had been named "Cadon'' without his permission. Fortnight ago, Cadon left his German-born wife in New York, next appeared aboard Pan Am's Flight 501 as it left Mexico City on its biweekly flight through Central America to Panama...
They were a different breed from the ex-mental patient who, over Mexico, had commandeered the Pan Am DC-8 jet (see THE NATION), and demanded that it be flown to Havana. The men who tried to seize Castro's C4& were anti-Castro Cubans, pointing up a growing embarrassment for Communists from East Germany to the Red Chinese border at Hong Kong: the widening river of desperate refugees fleeing to freer lands. Middle-class Cubans still come out aboard the twice-daily Pan Am flights to Miami. But now the humildes, the humble ones, la-'borers, rural...
...women, many dressed in mourning, sobbed; the men cheered defiantly. At Miami's International Airport last week, 1,000 Cuban exiles bade farewell to the prisoners-for-tractors team, returning fruitlessly to their Cuban jails. As the eight men* walked to the Pan American DC-6B, the crowd sang La Bayamesa, Cuba's national anthem ("Hurry to the battle . . . "), and one prisoner, refusing to give up hope, declared: "I'll be back soon." The team stood waving at the foot of the ramp until a Miami policeman snapped...