Word: panning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HOWARD HUGHES, whose Hughes Tool Co. controls TWA, plans to sell six TWA jets on order to Pan Am to ease financial squeeze. The deal: for $40 million, Hughes Tool will turn over six new long-range Boeing 707s to Pan Am, beginning in December. Hughes will also get an option to buy Pan Am's six shorter-range 707s for $32-to-$33 million-if it can raise the cash. Hughes has a $320 million commitment to buy 63 jets for TWA. Even though TWA has finally climbed into the black, Hughes has trouble raising that much money...
Soft Touch. In Cleveland, arrested for hitting her husband over the head. Mrs. Velma Kazlauskas told police. "I used the aluminum frying pan because it is lighter than the iron...
After he discovered that the captain was out of the cockpit talking to passengers in the cabin when a Pan American Boeing 707 dived 29,000 ft. on a transatlantic flight (TIME, Feb. 16), Old Pilot Quesada fined both Pan Am and the captain. He followed that up by publicly warning the Air Line Pilots Association that pilots are to stay in their cockpits with their belts fastened instead of gladhanding with the public. When the ALPA attacked this enforcement as a "childish Gestapo program," Quesada fired back a blunt answer: Obey the rules or take the matter to court...
...infrequently to Visegrad but, when it did, men died resignedly. Early in the book, Author Andrić offers the most grisly description of an impaling since the Tartar Prince Azya was mounted on a stake and had his one eye gouged out in Henryk (Quo Vadis) Sienkiewicz's Pan Michael. Later, when the Serbs revolt against the crumbling Ottoman Empire, severed heads are as common on the bridge as melons used to be, but the townsfolk-always approving of good workmanship-remark that the Turkish executioner has "a lighter hand than Mushan the town barber." When the Austrians finally...
Group 20 Players (Wellesley): June 23-July 4, Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing"; July 7-18, Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire"; July 21-August 1, Shaw's "Man and Superman"; August 4-15, Barrie's "Peter Pan"; August 18-29, Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" and Moliere's "The Follies of Scapin...