Word: pan
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Like any immigrant group, Arab Americans have found their way in a variety of occupations-as peddlers, small shopkeepers, cooks, restaurant owners, then lawyers, doctors, engineers. Now they point proudly to such men as Ralph Nader, Comedian Danny Thomas, Heart Surgeon Michael DeBakey and former Pan Am President Najeeb Halaby, who are all descended from Lebanese or Syrian forebears. One great hero is South Dakota's James Abourezk, a Lebanese American who is the first person of Arab extraction to make it to the U.S. Senate...
...draped an elaborate visceral poem. In the Chagall-blue-and-aqua forest of Costume and Scenery Designer Willa Kim, Daphnis and Chloë, two innocents danced by Richard Cragun and Marcia Hay dee, are instructed in the art of love-making by Egon Madsen's lithe and sinuous Pan...
Died. Leroy Anderson, 66, pop composer-conductor; of lung cancer; in Woodbury, Conn. Anderson launched what became a long career in Tin Pan Alley with Sleigh Ride, in 1947, an instantly popular orchestral piece that established his relentlessly bouncy style. His 1952 Blue Tango, featuring 50 violins, became the first instrumental to top the record charts...
Vince Vanderpool Wallace will return to the Bahamas this summer and try out for the Bahamas team in the Pan American games. Vanderpool-Wallace said yesterday. "I don't think the Olympic qualifying distance in the long jump will be much of a problem for me if I get in some training." Vanderpool-Wallace has already cleared 25 feet in the event. Junior Mel Embree said he will also "definitely try out for the Olympic team...
Hogan said he might try to hitch on to a club this summer even if he isn't grabbed to the draft. Thomas is thinking in terms of playing for Canada in the Pan Am games this fall...