Word: panning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Loaded with aviation officials and pressmen, the Soviet Union's huge Aeroflot jetliner, the Ilyushin-62, was scheduled to land at New York's Kennedy Airport after a stopover in Montreal. Total time: 12 hr. 40 min. A few hours later, a Pan American Boeing 707-321B jet was aimed for Moscow, via Copenhagen, for the 4,907-mile journey that was scheduled to last 10 hr. 35 min. Both planes were to return the next day, and both of the once-weekly flights will continue, with passengers paying from $548 for 14-to 21-day economy...
Primarily a matter of prestige for the U.S.S.R. and a gesture of East-West bridge building for the U.S., the direct air link is not expected to pay off in fast profits for either airline. By the end of last week, Pan American had found only 35 persons ready to embark on its first flight to Moscow...
...Pan Am, the Copenhagen stopover will help recover part of the expenses, since the Danish capital is a popular tourist spot. With one Russian visiting the U.S. for every seven Americans visiting Russia, Pan Am hopes to have a clear edge over the Soviet government-owned airline. Still, the Russians are expected to make the going great with vodka-caviar treats aboard IL-62 jets on the New York run. If so, this may lure away a number of prospective Pan American customers who would rather eat than sleep. "On a prestige flight like this," muses a Pan Am official...
Shaw had a more recent stimulus, too. J.M. Barrie had in 1904 written Peter Pan, whose unbounded popularity infuriated Shaw. So Shaw set out to show how one ought to write for young people, and fashioned his Androcles as "a fable for children." The play was denounced by the critics and the religious press, who were outraged by someone's writing a funny play about religion. But Shaw claimed the work was not a comedy--an absurd assertion. It is a fable; it is a fantasy; and it is just as surely a comedy. Yet, like all the best comedy...
...clouds over the Atlantic aboard Pan American Flight 55 last month, Ford Vice Chairman Arjay Miller leaned over to his companion and said he intended to quit. He said he had been invited to head Stanford University's Graduate School for Business effective next July. Miller recalls: "Mr. Ford understood why I wanted to go." So did other automen in Detroit. Miller's leavetaking had been expected since February, when Henry Ford II raided General Motors and came away with Semon E. Knudsen to replace him as president at Ford. Miller at 51 was shunted sideways into...