Word: panning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Common Problems. In such hopeful words, the visitors agreed on the principles underlying their two-day meeting in Panama's capital to commemorate the first Pan-American conference, called by Simón Bolivar in 1826. Some of the Presidents, practicing strongmen at home, may have been paying lip service to the ideals of the declaration. But many of them genuinely welcomed the chance to meet and talk over common problems in face-to-face relaxation...
...went without saying that the No. 1 guest would be Eisenhower of the U.S. When he was stricken with ileitis, the meeting, originally scheduled for June 25-26 to celebrate the 130th anniversary of Simón Bolivar's first Pan-American conference, was postponed (TIME, July 2). With Ike present, the gathering promised to be harmonious; perhaps the knottiest problem to be threshed out will be the wording of a declaration of Western political ideals. And such traditional enemies as Costa Rica's liberal President José Figueres and Nicaragua's perennial Strongman Anastasio Somoza will...
...first the mothers of Moroka did not know what had happened. They looked up to see the children skipping and dancing about like corn on a hot pan, then, as their mothers gaped from their doorways, the kids streamed into the brand-new Presbyterian church. But one stayed back long enough to explain: "They're following a little man no bigger than a boy-he's got hair all over his body and a long white beard, and claws instead of fingers." The mothers' hearts froze. For this, they knew at once, was Tikoloshe-the evil sprite...
...week, as CAB opened hearings on the recommendation, platoons of politicians pleaded with the CAB for the line that had promised most to the local folk. Maine's Senator Frederick Payne, representing the dozen New England Senators, spoke for his area's Northeast Airlines; New York championed Pan American World Airways; so did Maryland's Senator J. Glenn Beall. since Pan Am has promised to revive Baltimore's Friendship International Airport, if certified. Florida's ex-Governor Fuller Warren "begged for five minutes." spoke ten, predicted that "hundreds of Eastern's Miami employees" would...
Next the attorneys took over, but instead of the usual amenities, threats and accusations filled the air. Pan American's Henry Friendly accused Eastern and National of making "exorbitant profits" by supplying "inadequate service," argued that Pan Am's own subsidy could be cut $8,000,000 if it got the route. Eastern and National charged Pan Am with carrying on a "tremendous lobbying campaign," using its officers, from President Juan Trippe on down, to pressure Government officials into making "informal and off-the-record" approaches to the CAB on Pan Am's behalf. They denounced Pan...