Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Olympic Figure Skating Champion Marika Kilius and Sprinter Jutta Heine-look more like starlets than muscle-maids. At the Lido in Paris, where the famed Bluebell girls were once mostly English imports, one-fifth of the dancers are now German. Las Vegas talent scouts are also turning to Germany. Pan American Airways, which recruits 150 foreign stewardesses yearly, now finds a sizable percentage of them in West Germany. The Germans even boast two of Europe's prettiest politicians, Bundestag Deputies Hedda Heuser and Annemarie Renger...
Production has just begun on France's ten-passenger Mystere 20; Pan American has already ordered 40 of these 530-m.p.h. jets, has an option on 120 more. Pan Am will start receiving the planes in early 1965 and will sell (and sometimes lease) them in the U.S. and Canada. Clearly, Pan American's cagey President Juan Trippe, who has seldom been wrong about travel trends, believes that little jets will play a big role in businessmen's futures...
...from Shoot the Piano Player that lighted the souls of Aznavour's audience. It was more the philosophical songs. Aznavour turns to his audience, the spotlight centers on his face, his combo establishes a quiet minor key in the background, and Aznavour spits out enough lyrics to supply Tin Pan Alley for a year. The lyrics Aznavour writes are "about things that people gladly do, but do not dare talk about"; before one song, he says, "this is very French, but then I am French." The lyrics, intricately rhymed manifestos, present philosophies of life; Aznavour delivers them with his soul...
...First a Pan American Boeing 707-139 jet, coming into Kennedy Airport from Puerto Rico with 136 passengers and a crew of nine, overshot its runway and cracked apart in a sea of mud. No one was critically hurt. Then, about ten hours later, an American Airlines Lockheed Electra from Buffalo with 73 passengers and five crew members overshot a runway at La Guardia Air port and ended up in a pile of construction work. The only casualty was a construction worker who was hit by a flying stone. And less than two hours after that, an empty...
...aircraft overrunning a runway is very unusual," commented the Federal Aviation Agency's regional director, Oscar Bakke. "But three at once! I just don't recall anything like it." All of the three planes were making landings in rainy weather. The Pan Am flight, coming in on ILS guidance, apparently strayed from the glide path and came in high and too far down the runway. "Aquaplaning" - a phenomenon in which a thin film of water can delay the point at which a plane's wheels touch the concrete of the run way - is suspected to have been...