Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seized the microphone to tell Belgium's King Baudouin that "from today, we are no longer your monkeys." He was also the first Congolese politician to think beyond tribal boundaries, the founder (in 1959) of the Congo's first semi-national political movement, its first real pan-African nationalist-and its first Prime Minister. But at the time of his death, most of his countrymen had either never heard of him or hated...
...year traveler has been superseded by the 250,000-mile man; both Kaiser Industries President Edgar Kaiser and Loew's Hotel President Preston R. Tisch flew that far last year. Jets also make it possible for prosperous executives to live in one climate and relax in another. Pan Am has a regular clientele of Manhattan businessmen who have bought winter homes in Nassau, jet from snow to sun weekends on an easy 2-hr. 50-min. flight...
...pioneer in urban renewal, has won awards for his Chicago Hyde Park and Philadelphia Washington Square East redevelopments, Kips Bay Plaza in Manhattan, and the Pan Pacific Center in Honolulu. He also developed the master plan for several districts of Washington...
...each group is prideful of its own heroes and pleasured by the insulated coherence of its own world. Come the next nasty pan this happy commerce between our spheres will diminish, and we shall retreat again for a time, as "writers" and "actors," into the apartheid of mutual ridicule...
...other respects, American Samoa -seven volcanic islands and two coral atolls 2,300 miles southwest of Hawaii -is trading old romance for new bustle. It has a jet airport and zip code numbers for outlying villages; a Pan Am subsidiary has leased a 100-room tourist inn to compete with the old Rainmaker Hotel. Most striking of all, the whole Samoaft school system has been turned over to television...