Word: panning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earth satellite that the U.S. will launch sometime during the International Geophysical Year (July 1957 through December 1958) will be as round and silvery as any moon over Tin Pan Alley. The man-made moon will be a shiny magnesium sphere 20 inches in diameter, weighing 21½ Ibs., according to details revealed this week in Detroit by the contractor, Brooks & Perkins...
...seven lines competing for a slice of the world's best air route, Northeast had one of the weakest claims. A CAB examiner had recommended Delta; New York City and Baltimore had officially endorsed Pan Am. Northeast's very weakness, however, turned out to be its strength. It was the only domestic trunk-line still on Government subsidy, receiving $1.8 million from Washington every year, and CAB felt that it had a mandate to get all U.S. airlines off subsidy and flying on their...
...furor over the Northeast decision, newsmen and airline lobbyists missed another CAB ruling that may be even more important. Three days before it voted on Northeast, CAB voted 3-2, Democrats Joseph Adams and Joseph Minetti dissenting, to give Pan American a New York-Nassau route. With Pan Am already flying between Miami and Nassau, the ruling would, in effect, also bring Pan Am into the New York-Miami run-by way of Nassau. Since the unannounced Pan Am decision could still be reversed, new pressures will arise in Washington. The Gold Coast war is not over...
...football star in the worst way, but during a preseason drill in his junior year he broke a leg and never played football again. Later he won a fistful of Big Ten sprint championships, was leadoff man on the 400-meter relay team that set a Pan American record in Mexico in 1955. But when the Army shipped him to Los Angeles to try for the Olympic team, a bad break stopped him once more. He suffered leg cramps, was roundly beaten, and missed making the passenger list for Melbourne. Last week stomach trouble kept Willie Williams from training...
...Killed, 194 (139 Republicans, 55 Dem ocrats) to 179 (126 Republicans. 53 Dem ocrats), the Administration-sponsored, Senate-approved $156 million Frying Pan-Arkansas project designed to bring Frying Pan Creek water to drought-stricken southeastern Colorado (in the Arkansas River valley) by tunnel through the Con tinental Divide...