Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past decade. Meantime, U.S. owners have registered 454 ships in foreign countries, including 259 in tax-free Panama, Liberia and Honduras. Not only can these "flag of convenience" ships be operated at half the cost of a U.S.-flag ship, but the 259 "Pan-Lib-Hon" vessels are under U.S. "effective control," i.e., Washington can order them into the U.S. merchant fleet in time...
...great is the exodus that the twice-weekly ferry has been sold out for six weeks ahead. In Havana, the Dutch KLM airline, with an average of 60 seats a week out of Cuba, finally had to lock the doors of its ticket office. Pan American was booked solid into August. As each plane landed in Miami, it was greeted by crowds of anxious exiles, beseeching the new arrivals for word of a brother, a husband, a parent remaining in Cuba...
...Julius Nyerere, First Minister of dependent Tanganyika. Much prized as another African "moderate," Nyerere gets Mrs. Dean's vote as the man most likely to lead any pan-Africa federation. Nyerere has done the best of any African statesman (except possibly the Nigerians) in reconciling the whites of his territory to independence, with a plea for "mutiracial democracy...
...Fish, Little Fish. An honest, unhackneyed, sometimes labored comedy about a has-been editor who lands in the frying pan of false success...
...Utah and Colorado, on to Arizona, New Mexico and California-is one of the greatest of U.S. river systems. Starting as a trickle in the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado River sweeps south and west to absorb such tributaries as the Gunnison River, the Roaring Fork and the Frying Pan, until, after a passage of 1,400 miles, it empties with a gout of reddish, mineral-stained water into the Gulf of California...