Word: panning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interview, shoots as much as 20 hours of film for one hour of the final product-a ratio greater than any other TV show, newsreel or Hollywood itself. The method is costly in effort and money-$100,000 a show (plus $75,000 for TV time). Though Sponsor Pan American World Airways picks up part of the tab, CBS loses money on the program. Murrow and Friendly may spend as much as a year preparing a single show, e.g., Automation, Weal or Woe?, or follow a breaking news story on two hours' notice and come back with the memorable...
...leader of a delegation of five Moroccan women to the fourth congress of the Pan-Arab Women's Federation in Damascus, smoking cigarettes with Continental casualness in a decolleté, skin-tight gown which had the other 300 delegates from nine Arab countries* goggling, the princess tucked one shapely foot under her and discussed her favorite topics: divorce and the veil. Morocco, she said, will soon have a law requiring men to produce legitimate reasons for a divorce instead of just telling a woman three times to go away. "Of course," she added, "we cannot forbid divorce, and besides...
...featuring the standard heroes-errant of the frontier. Cartoon Impresario Disney was trundled about from one plug to another by his Mousketeers, who wound up the big sales convention with a tasteless routine on top of a giant birthday cake, plugging a movie called Rainbow Road to Oz. Peter Pan Peanut Butter interrupted a fetching cartoon depiction of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, which Disney dragged out of his attic of past hits for a commercial on its crunchy product. Even Alice in Wonderland got helplessly involved in the selling melee: "Was it the smile on my Cheshire...
...international airlines, the biggest problem of 1957 has spawned the bitterest argument. The problem: increasing competition from foreign carriers, largely because the U.S. is letting more and more foreign lines get into choice U.S. markets. Last week, as Pan American World Airways inaugurated a long-contemplated polar route from San Francisco to Paris, the French government threatened to halt the flights unless its Air France got a similar route-and the U.S. State Department quickly said that it would consider the matter...
...that U.S. overseas airlines have not been badly hurt despite increased competition. In 1955, the last year for which figures are available, U.S. airlines got $225 million from overseas operations v. only $119 million for all foreign operations on U.S. routes. State Department economists also note that this year Pan American will carry 20,000 more passengers on transatlantic runs than in 1956, an increase greater than the total transatlantic business of either British Overseas Airways or Air France. Furthermore, while economics technically dictates all route awards, international politics always plays a role. The State Department emphasizes that American airline...