Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME article of June 20, carrying the story on Brazilian lands, stated: "Pan American Airways Vice President Humphrey Toomey bought 105 acres just outside Brasilia for $1,800 six months ago. Now he is selling it in quarter-acre lots, expects to get $156,000." We strongly urge that a correction be made, since we and not Mr. Toomey are in the subdivision business, and we know for a fact that Mr. Toomey has never been in the subdivision business...
Just before dawn, at an altitude of 33,000 ft., Pan American Airways Flight 2 was about 550 miles out of Tokyo, bound for Honolulu. "Suddenly I saw what appeared to be a bright star with a gaseous-appearing halo, elliptical in shape," said Captain H. Lanier Turner. "But right away I could see it was moving, and I judged it to be an ICBM, or something the Russians were trying to put in orbit...
...four weeks ago, the record is more or less sung by Brian Hyland, 16, a hitherto unpublicized and untrained singer from Queens, who was "discovered" last year by a talent agent who heard him singing in the lobby of Manhattan's Brill Building, headquarters of Tin Pan Alley. Itsy Bitsy has already sold 600,000 copies, is all over the jukeboxes, TV and radio, in fact all over everything except the poor little unnamed girl in the song...
...myth. Nigeria's Maitama Sule attacked Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah, who dreams of himself as the leader of a united Africa. "If anyone makes the mistake of feeling he is a messiah who had a mission to lead Africa," cried Sule, "the whole purpose of Pan-Africanism will be defeated. Hitler thought he had a mission...
When Eastern Air Lines pilots obeyed the union order, Eastern went into a federal court and won a temporary restraining order. The pilots got around it by staying away from work on the grounds of "sickness." TWA, American Airlines and Pan American got a restraining order from a federal district court in Chicago, requiring pilots to comply with the FAA order. But the pilots were not happy. Growled one captain to an FAA inspector: "I don't want you here at all, but we're under a court order, so sit down...