Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shift grew out of a split in Syria's ruling Pan-Arab Baath Party between General Salah Jadid, leader of a powerful clique of pro-Peking officers, and Strongman General Amin Hafez, top dog in Syria since 1963. At the Casablanca conference of Arab leaders last September, Hafez pledged Syria to an agreement not to meddle in other states' internal affairs. Objecting, the Jadid group blamed a "right-wing reactionism" for the moderating tendencies in other Arab nations, argued for Syrian leadership to restore the "progressive Arab socialist outlook...
...More Pan than the Europeans. American bankers moved strongly abroad in the wake of U.S. corporations that were establishing Common Market operations. The banks came along to handle financing for old customers, as well as such routine stateside services as company payrolls and pension funds. With branches spread through the Common Market, they discovered they were more Pan-European than the Europeans, solicited European business as well as American...
Japan Air Lines will become only the third foreign carrier (after Australia's Qantas and Britain's BOAC) both to fly across the U.S. and to fly all the way around the world. The U.S.'s Trans World Airlines has no service across the Pacific; Pan American cannot fly across the U.S. Aviation circles, however, expect that Pan Am will now press its long-standing application to Washington for cross-country rights...
...cuties, almost everything in Thunderball is disappointing. The underwater scenes in the picture are well-photographed but painfully slow. The gadgetry -- one and two-man underwater sleds, a yacht that sheds its cabin to become a hydroplane, and so forth -- does not seem especially ingenious. And Bond's "dead-pan quips" are exemplified by his remark after impaling a SPECTURE agent against a tree: "I guess he got the point...
Just as spectacular in its own way is the new heliport that opened for business last week atop Manhattan's Pan Am Building, 59 stories in the air. From that pad, New York Airways will whisk travelers from midtown Manhattan to Kennedy Airport in only seven minutes (v. the 45-minute taxi trip) for $7. Passengers can check their luggage at Pan Am's mezzanine-level counter, never have to bother with it again until they land in London or Bombay...