Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pan American, which already flies to Japan from California, got new routes from Seattle and New York over the North Pole to Japan. Northwest Airlines, also a Pacific veteran, will get an additional route to Japan via Hawaii. Result: more competition between Pan Am and Northwest, but also more opportunity for each to attract traffic. Finally, the Flying Tiger Line landed an all-cargo route to Southeast Asia...
REMEMBER the second act of Peter Pan, when Tinkerbell is dying, and Peter turns to the audience and asks everyone to clap if they believe in fairies? The other day I read a critic who claimed it was all a dirty attempt to make the kiddies accept homosexuality. I was shocked. Not at the smut charge, mind you, but at the critic's inference that I believed in Peter and his boys at all. You just can't be brought up on television and still believe...
...current production, Gilbert's burlesque of late 19th-century melodrama is presented all but dead-pan by actors nearly as immobile as the lectern-bound participants in a dramatic reading. Having abandoned all but the most incidental attempts to give character to his leads or to fortify the humor of the text with sight gags, Paul G. Cooper reduces himself from a director to a variety of quartermaster. His sole purpose and accomplishment is to deliver the proper number of actors to any part of the stage which will accommodate them, in time for the musical numbers. No 18th-century...
...panic. Hijackers, although unwelcome, can be congenial. One of the three men who took over Pan American's San Juan-bound Flight 281 in November, identified only as Jose, passed out .32-cal. bullets as souvenirs and chatted amicably with passengers-including Joseph Hunoval and his wife, a honeymoon couple from New Jersey. "He said he was very sorry to inconvenience us," reported Mrs. Hunoval. "Cubans really are very friendly people...
...POPULATION PROBLEM. "Born in Ja pan." A documentary showing how Japan, one of the most densely populated na tions in the world, has become the only Asian nation to reduce its birth rate since World...