Word: pan
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Under the gun of financial extremity Pan American World Airways has dropped many of the exotic but unprofitable destinations to which it traditionally flew. Then it turned to Iran for about $245 million in rescue loans. Now another long-distinctive feature of the company is going. After 48 years of service, Founder and Chairman Juan Terry Trippe, 75, will not stand for re-election to the board at the annual meeting...
...offshore in the South China Sea shut down their rigs and evacuated American personnel in company planes. Some members of an oil-company rigging crew may have headed straight for Singapore in their workboat. Local branch managers for Chase Manhattan, First National City and Bank of America chartered a Pan Am 707 and flew to Hong Kong for "consultations" despite U.S. embassy protests that their departure was premature. In fact, it was ordered by then-head offices. Said B. of A. Vice President Andrew Boudewyn in San Francisco: "We wanted to evacuate them before...
...William Morison, "as long as whatever government they have there allows us to." Chase's branch manager returned to Saigon, at least temporarily, after embassy officials promised that he and other bank employees would have equal priority with government personnel if and when it came time to run. Pan American last week managed to operate two scheduled flights into Saigon, even though the airline said that its Tan Son Nhut airport personnel were "trying to rush hundreds of passengers aboard airplanes" and "coping with bayonet-carrying MPs." Thursday's 373-seat Pan Am 747 flight, however, left with...
...called Jilly to get Penny to meet me at the Pizzi Pan. I fell asleep, and got a call from Penny about 4 p.m. She wanted to see me, but we would have to meet behind the Burger Queen beside the motel. She showed up in a green mustang...
...astronomer at the University of London, Jocelyn Bell Burnell acknowledges that she "made him [Hewish] aware of their sidereal nature and convinced him that it was worth looking into more closely." But she adds: "Nobel Prizes are based on longstanding research, not on a flash-in-the-pan observation of a research student. The award to me would have debased the prize...