Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First word of the disaster came to the U.S. Coast Guard's Boston station radio, which heard the faint words "Pan . . . pan . . . pan . . .," an international signal meaning that an urgent message follows. It was from the Shalom, which had a 40-ft.-long gash in her bow and was shipping tons of sea water into her No. 1 hold. Minutes later, a Long Island Coast Guard radio monitored a distress call from the Stolt Dagali. The Coast Guard asked Washington's Federal Communications Commission for a radio fix on the vessels. Navy and Coast Guard helicopters and planes...
Usually I go to movies, but since the CRIMSON's opera reviewer had to go to a Phi Beta Kappa meeting, I became an opera critic last night. And boy was it ever fun. When I told my roommate just how much fun it was, he said, "Pan it so I can get tickets for Saturday night." But honesty before friendship...
...said the researcher, "it looks like a pan of worms." That was at an early stage of the project that produced the BUSINESS section's map of the million miles of pipelines that lie like a set of ribs under the surface of the U.S. From the idea, through the pan-of-worms stage, to the printed page this week, the map was three months in production...
...many unspectacular ways, the six-year military dictatorship of Lieut. General Ibrahim Abboud was a Pan-African success story. When he seized power in 1958, the Sudan had suffered under three bungling governments in less than three years of independence...
...Installation of Continental's system, developed by California's Ampex Corp., will cost about $45,000 a plane. For its Astrovision, made by Sony of Japan, American Airlines pays $52,000 a plane; it puts out another $1,000,000 a year just to rent 52 movies. Pan American is studying an in-flight movie system that would cost about $5,000,000 to install in its jet fleet...