Word: panning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nixon also found poor performance in Latin American diplomacy -what Latinos call "blah-blah" Pan-Americanism. The Presidents' Conference in Panama in 1956, sponsored and attended by President Eisenhower, is scorned as "just a gesture" by U.S. friends such as Galo Plaza. Except for Communist crises -the Red threat to Guatemala -Secretary of State Dulles is virtually inaccessible to hemisphere diplomats for serious discussions. He is criticized for staying at the 1954 Tenth Inter-American Conference in Caracas just long enough to jam through an anti-Communist resolution, and fly home, leaving the question of economic relations, dear...
Down from the hill, Photographer Griffin set up the biggest beat of the tour after recording the Caracas attack from the photographers' truck. Unable to charter a private plane, he got his film aboard a Pan American flight to Port of Spain. Trinidad. By fortunate happenstance, a Radidphoto transmitter had been installed there only last month for Princess Margaret's visit. Griffin's pictures were moving out from New York by 2 a.m. the following day, a good nine hours ahead of rival United Press...
...would be a shame to have airlines such as Scandinavian Airlines, Swissair, Air France, and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines cut down on their high caliber of service (which is typical of European hospitality) in order for Pan American to compete successfully with their version of typical United States hospitality (TIME, April...
...York Shipbuilding and Stinson Aircraft before he sold his holdings for $2,632,000 during a 1937 fight with the Securities and Exchange Commission. California knows Cord as the man who developed a fabulously profitable eight-block stretch of Beverly Hills' Wilshire Boulevard, owns the 31-acre Pan Pacific Auditorium, has a huge chunk of Santa Anita track stock...
...Actress Barbara Bel Geddes; of a heart attack, while lunching at Manhattan's University Club. Irrepressibly creative Norman Bel Geddes designed everything from ashtrays to sets for the Metropolitan Opera, refrigerators, radios, root-beer bottles, magazine layouts, furniture, downtown Toledo, motor cars, gasoline stations, the interiors of Pan American Airways' China Clippers, Fifth Avenue store windows, a tent without poles for the Ringling Bros, circus. Designer of more than 50 theatrical productions (Ziegfeld Follies; Lady, Be Good; Fifty Million Frenchmen), he was also one of the first big-time talents to enter the field of industrial design, crowned...