Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...participants, however, seemed to have come from Central Casting. They were indomitable, photogenic people, barefoot and singing as they cleared away the rubble. (The implication was that the songs were traditional Vietnamese, though according to South Vietnamese sources, they are Red Chinese in origin.) The camera would pan a lovely pastoral tableau. Then the air-raid sirens would scream, and everyone would scramble for one-man, cement-lined foxholes. One sequence depicted a captured American airman. Inevitably, there were affecting shots of injured children and of surgeons working on the wounded by flashlight, and Narrator Greene would ask plaintively...
McKelvey will race a field including John Carlos, Pan Am Games winner in the 100 and 200 meter runs. Either Baker or Shaw will be up against Kent State's Sam Bair, the National AAU mile champion...
...first glimpse of the war came before I had even set foot in Vietnam. As our Pan Am jet passed over the province east of Saigon an army officer next to me pointed out some Air Force jets in an airstrike. All I could see were the wings swooping down beneath some hills to reappear seconds later. Any explosions were hidden from sight by the hills. I saw plenty of old bomb craters filled with rain water. You could practically follow the craters right into the approaches to Saigon's Ton San Nhut airport. So there really...
When Trans World Airlines starts touting Pan American World Airways, its nose-to-nose U.S. rival for the lucrative transatlantic traffic, there must be a good reason. Last week there was: in President Johnson's moves to cut the U.S. balance of payments deficit, TWA saw a way to cut in on the 60% of the transatlantic business now held by foreign airlines even if that meant sharing the rewards with Pan...
...began a novel fly-U.S.-airlines campaign. Full-page newspaper advertisements featured a sketch of a gold bar, under which the boldface copy read: "There are only two ways to keep it in the U.S.A. when you fly to Europe. TWA-or our friends at Pan Am." The smaller print appealed directly to businessmen who, no matter what the Government's travel restrictions turn out to be, must still go abroad to sell U.S. goods and services. "We'll help you," concluded the ad, "even if we have to send you to our friends up the street...