Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pan American's Flight 843 waited at the end of the main runway at San Francisco's International Airport for takeoff to Honolulu. Aboard the Boeing 707 jet was a full complement of 143 passengers, a crew of ten, two tons of cargo and 13,384 gal. of fuel. At the controls, First Officer Fred Miller, 47, went through the pre-takeoff checklist with Captain Charles Kimes, 44, a freckled, sandy-haired veteran of 16,000 flying hours who had elected to let Miller handle the takeoff. Finally, the airport tower radioed: "Clipper 843 cleared for takeoff." Thirty...
Last week, in a series of municipal elections, the G.O.P. proved that its 1964 performance was not a flash in the pan. Where the party ran only two candidates in the 1961 municipal elections, this time it put up no fewer than 46-seven for mayor, 39 for lesser posts in 18 towns and cities. Sensing a threat to Democratic rule, Governor Paul Johnson urged Mississippians to the polls for "probably the most important election in this state's recent history...
Tulips on Cedar. Parker knows what's going on. He starred on Pennsylvania's varsity from 1955 to '57, then shifted to single sculls and in 1959 won the National championship and the Pan American Games gold medal, went all the way to the finals of Britain's Henley regatta before losing. A few months later, Harvard offered him a job coaching its frosh, moved him up to the varsity in 1963 when Head Coach Harvey Love died. "This sport tends to be conservative," says Parker. "I'm inclined to try things...
...shot down efforts by foreign carriers to get rid of in-flight films, which TWA pioneered in 1961 As a result, TWA, plus Pakistan Inter national and Philippine airlines, which have also inaugurated movies, will keep the screens lit. A few other foreign lines may also introduce flicks, and Pan American has announced that it will equip its international flights with movies "as speedily as possible" to compete with...
Some students have asked why the AAAAS is not active in "civil rights" events? Some of our members are. Whether we are Black Nationalists? Whether we favor separation, integration, Pan-Africanism, socialism, revolution, exodus to...? Mr. Lerner remarked of the refreshing diversity of our viewpoints in his review of The Journal (whose contributors were neither racially nor ideologically of one complexion). This is but one reflection of the breadth and vitality of our commitment to the fullest examination of our peoples' problems. Our organization for that purpose, in this liberal academic community, should be judged by its practical fruits. James...