Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...horse breeding, both of which he loved, but his greatest enthusiasm was for high finance-and for 48 years he multiplied his family firm's prestige and fortune. He was one of the first to see the enormous potential of aviation, helped bankroll the beginnings of American, Pan American and Trans World Airlines. He was a friend to retail merchandising when other bankers scoffed, was financial angel to many of today's largest firms. "I bet on people more than balance sheets," Lehman once told Litton Chairman Tex Thornton, who recalls: "I blinked my eyes a couple...
...Trout fishing in America, Inc." The button was white with "Trout Fishing in America, Inc." in green Roman capitals, centered, in four lines. Someone had tossed me the button during an interview. I had expected to see the Great American Wilderness and two rainbow trout in a frying pan. Instead the button was very straightforward. And it was tossed by a girl with long black hair, a purple sweater, and no brassiere. I had put it on without thinking...
...they see it is assaulted everywhere. "You're trying to teach your chil dren one set of values and every element of life around them shows you up as a square," laments Elaine Whitehead, a telegrapher in Bellingham, Wash. "Sometimes I feel like grabbing a burro and gold pan, packing up my family and heading for the hills...
...year civil war between Nigeria and Biafra, but the trip had first been planned around the Pope's dedication of a shrine to 22 African martyrs.* He also consecrated twelve new African bishops and offered a thoughtful analysis of the African Church's spiritual role before a pan-African conference of Catholic prelates that had been meeting all week. Above all, the visit reaffirmed the Pope's concern for the future of the church in Africa...
...bishops and cardinals assembled in Kampala last week demonstrated that they were enjoying independence. They approved a plan to strengthen their autonomy with a permanent pan-African secretariat empowered to call meetings of the African bishops and act as a communications clearinghouse. When Pope Paul arrived in Kampala, he heartily endorsed their moves, both toward autonomy and a more vigorous effort to Africanize the church. In Rugaba Cathedral, Tanzania's Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa pledged the symposium's "total solidarity" with Rome (last year, the bishops had praised the Pope's birth control encyclical). Then Paul...