Word: pan
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...Atlantic will be cut 20% in both first class and economy-and for trips of 21 days or less, to as low as $264 round trip New York to Shannon. The response to the reductions has startled even the airline executives. So many passengers have already booked trips that Pan American World Airways estimates that revenues of the transatlantic lines this year will rise $500 million...
Compared with last year's reservations for flights from April 1 to July 1, Pan Am's bookings to Europe are up 30% and TWA's 58% . Even more spectacular is the surge in reservations for flights to the U.S.; Alitalia and BOAC both have increases of more than 100% , while Air France, SAS, KLM, Lufthansa and Swissair have gained 12% to 30% . Airline executives expect a record number of tourists to be attracted to the U.S. by the bargain fares, coinciding as they do with the opening of the New York World's Fair...
...solution was to call a special meeting of the Organization for African Unity. This fledgling Pan-African grouping of 33 states was created last May at Addis Ababa, where Emperor Haile Selassie sponsored the latest moves toward continental unity. The O.A.U. is an amalgam of two earlier unity attempts that had failed (the Casablanca Pact and the Monrovia Group), and with its insistence on African solutions to African problems, it listened with sympathy to Nyerere's story, effectively absolved him of his sin. Shaken but still alive, Julius Nyerere set out to rebuild his army and his popularity...
...been found for Teflon that it has taken its place as one of the "miracle" products. American consumers were introduced to it only two years ago, when European companies that had mastered the technique of bonding Du Font's plastic to other materials began exporting Teflon-coated frying pans to the U.S. To the astonishment of U.S. housewives, eggs, meat, even cheese and pancakes, required no fat for frying and could quickly be removed from the pan without sticking...
...matter minutes, Nyerere neatly converted the revolt from an internal to a pan-African affair. He also pointed out that the African Liberation movements, with headquarters in Dar es Salaam, might be damaged by the existence of just such a state of affairs in Tanganyika, and that this was also "the concern of the whole of Africa...