Word: pan
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...generations. Only a bare outline of these complex arrangements is likely to be made public through his will. The closely guarded secrets of the Kennedys' finances will remain in the hands of a small group of totally discreet professional managers operating from Suite 3021 in Manhattan's Pan Am Building. The fortune, used in the past with unrivaled success to achieve the power and prestige of the nation's highest offices, will henceforth be deployed according to a long-term strategy. The aim is to consolidate what the tragedy-scarred family possesses-and preserve a base...
Last week Halaby's activist style propelled him into the boss's seat at Pan American World Airways, of which he has been president for the past 18 months. Chairman Harold Gray, 63, stepped down after only a year and a half as chief executive of the financially troubled airline, and announced that he planned to retire next year. Surface appearances to the contrary, the switch was something less than a managerial upheaval. Halaby, now 54, has been in line to take over ever since Pan Am Founder Juan Trippe lured him away from Washington four years...
...Pan Am, which is scheduled to get the first of the new jets early next year, is in a particularly tough bind. For the first time, it has carried fewer transatlantic passengers this year than TWA. After reporting that third-quarter earnings had dropped from $25 million to $8 million, Pan Am laid off 750 employees, including 450 of its 3,600 pilots and flight engineers...
David Manber's scenario, an unstable amalgam of early Arthur Miller and late James M. Barrie, gives the frustrated boy soliloquies that would make Peter Pan queasy. He calls his dog "noble steed," plays mincing bullfighter to a pickup truck, decorates a barn with painted flowers-and finally floats off to war. But all is probably well. Presented with such a pixie, the Army could do nothing but shrug its shoulders and issue a medical discharge...
...Organization of Black Unity (OBU)-a newly-created group of black students at all Harvard graduate schools and the College-met for the first time Wednesday night and set up a program to promote Pan Africanism...