Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That Madison Avenue has a tin pan ally has long been an open secret. When singing commercials first began to sound better than popular songs, most listeners concluded, reasonably enough, that popular songs had become worse (rock 'n' roll had come along). But a year or so later, the advertising arias began to sound unmistakably better than the TV programs they interrupted. Here was unquestionable evidence. TV programs could not have got any worse; therefore, the singing commercials had improved...
...table placed so strategically that it would take a center fielder's throw ing arm to get a porringer full of Pablum to the wall. The kitchen's casement windows are ornamented with stained glass. On a counter is a Teddy bear in an electric frying pan, and a copy of Meals for Two that hasn't been opened in 15 years...
...Dilemma. The Pan-African conference pointed up Nasser's curious dilemma today. Only 43, still the idol of Arab masses wherever he goes, he is a man with his ambitions unsated, a fading hero in search of a solid triumph. At home, his record is at best mixed. The Aswan Dam is under construction; Egypt's staple product, cotton, was bought up on world markets in record quantities last year. Russia has provided $170 million for industrial development, as well as $377 million for the dam (v. the U.S.'s $120 million). The Suez Canal is doing...
These works, he said, reflect a kind of "Pan-Afro-American Nationalism," and are providing an outlet for the tensions and hostilities felt by the musicians. The protest content of the music, he felt, was bound to increase...
Wearied by the constant warfare between the combatants, the Government filed an antitrust suit in 1954 against all three for conspiring to monopolize air traffic between the U.S. and South America. Real purpose of the Government's action was to separate Panagra from Pan Am to facilitate a merger with Braniff. In his 70-page opinion, Judge Murphy dismissed the charges against Grace and Panagra, thus cleared the runway for a possible Braniff-Panagra merger...