Word: pan
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...Louis to its suburbs in spite of the city's effort to retain them by making tax concessions. In Detroit, the migration has turned into such a stampede that former Mayor Jerome Cavanagh cracks that he plans trips to "Detroit's sister cities-Nagasaki and Pompeii." Pan American and Delta airlines recently shifted their downtown sales and reservations offices to suburban Southfield, which has also attracted the headquarters of Advance Mortgage Corp. The publishing firm of R. I. Polk and the Michigan Automobile Club are about to quit the city. Circus World is moving its toy warehouse from...
Collectors and souvenir hunters have always been inspired by strange and esoteric impulses. A lock of Napoleon's hair, which even Josephine would not have given a sou for, can today fetch upwards of $200. A frying pan used by Britain's "Great Train Robbers" when they were hiding out in a Midlands farmhouse in 1963 recently went for $120. Even so, the mania for Hitleriana is an especially puzzling phenomenon. In the past year, sales of Third Reich mementos have begun to rise sharply. A few of the collectors are old diehard Nazis like a former...
Stablemates. Buckley and Goldstein started Screw in 1968 with a stake of $350, half from Buckley, the other half from Goldstein's wife Mary, then a stewardess for Pan Am but since fired because of her association with the publication. Bribes induced some two dozen Manhattan news dealers to handle the first issue's 7,000 copies. Screw grossed $650,000 in its first year and more than...
...could be right. But so far Sadat has gone out of his way to give the impression that he is less intent on fighting than on solving Egypt's massive domestic problems. By word and gesture, he has set out to shift Egypt's mood from belligerent pan-Arabism to constructive nationalism...
That raises the possibility that U.S. airlines might have to buy new equipment from abroad. "None of us would want to watch the Tupolevs go by," says Najeeb Halaby, chairman of Pan Am. Nor would Western airmen want to be dependent on the Soviets for spare parts. Eager for high prestige and hard currency, the Russians are making a determined effort to sell their TU-144, as well as many other planes, to airlines in the non-Communist world...