Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pan, Clavell...
That act of friendly persuasion is quite in keeping with the French role in Europe. De Gaulle shares the traditional French fear of Germany, and has been reluctant to see his trans-Rhine neighbor reunite. In that, De Gaulle is clearly a Frenchman first-but with a pan-European difference. As he said during his election campaign last year: "This country, this France which has bandaged her wounds, and God knows they were serious; this France which is regaining her power; ah, yes, she is devoting herself to establishing an equilibrium in the world. In brief, we are playing...
...elections were over, tempers were cooling, and people were finally talking about something besides politics. So last week, in a meeting at Washington's Pan American Union, the Organization of American States voted 18 to 0 to withdraw the 8,000 OAS peace-keeping troops still in the Dominican Republic. The pull-out will take 90 days and begin before the inauguration of President-elect Balaguer on July...
...also an audacious salesman whose knack for stretching a dollar impresses the investment bankers and makes him worth his annual salary of $132,000, second highest in the industry (after Pan Am Chairman Juan Trippe). Under Six, Continental has adopted "perpetual maintenance," a system that substitutes frequent brief overhauls for long layovers in the shop, helping to raise daily operating time of its aircraft to as much as 17 hours, well above the industry's norms. Six has been able to recruit outstanding executives. For seven years his No. 2 man was Harding Lawrence, now the successful president...
...result, the record number of Europe-bound travelers may have a hard time getting the flights they want. Passport issuances are running 14% ahead of last year, and advance transatlantic bookings are up 27% at TWA and 29% at Pan Am, with many weekday excursion-fare flights sold...