Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Never. Founded in 1929 by a group of New York investors and taken over the next year by the U.S.'s Pan American World Air ways, Panair was once South America's proudest and biggest airline. It pioneered the first services to the Amazon basin, expanded throughout the country, carried Brazil's flag to London, Paris, Frankfurt and Rome. As the jet age began, Panair added DC-8s and Caravelles to its fleet of Constellations and Catalinas...
Then, in 1961, bowing to the intense nationalistic pressures stirred up by President Jánio Quadros, Pan American sold its 30% controlling interest to Brazilian investors. The new owners, notably Mário Simonsen, a wheeler-dealer who made a fortune speculating in coffee, quickly put Panair into a financial nose dive. To win friends and influence politicians on other business deals, Simonsen started handing out so many free tickets that on overseas runs as many as 40% of Panair's passengers were flying now and paying never...
...Teen Pan Alley. Born in The Bronx and raised in Los Angeles, Spector (his real name) played jazz guitar in nightclubs during his high school years. At 17, inspired by the inscription on his father's tombstone, he wrote his first song, To Know Him, Is to Love Him. It sold 1,200,000 copies and has become an alltime teen classic. Phil marked time for two years working as a court stenotypist. Then, at 19, he moved to Manhattan and tried to crash "Teen Pan Alley" only to discover that "95% of the music business is heavily infiltrated...
...smalltime merchant's son who wormed his way into Rio society with critically acclaimed verse, through his contacts built up a huge business complex (15 supermarkets in Rio alone), in the 1950s became President Juscelino Kubitschek's top speech writer and the brains behind his "Operation Pan America," forerunner of the Alianza; of a heart attack...
...videotape recorder is playing a steadily bigger part in their lives. It is a device that records and stores images and sounds on magnetic tape and plays them back immediately-or hours or years later. About a third of the shows on TV are so recorded. American Airlines and Pan American use videotape for their in-flight entertainment. The New York Telephone Co. helps train its salesmen by videotaping them during practice sessions and showing them playbacks of their mistakes. Yonkers Raceway uses the videotape to judge photo finishes. Many schools have begun to use videotape for classroom teaching...