Word: panning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less attractive customs of the West come to the Communist world for the first time since 1956, when a Hungarian airliner was seized and diverted to West Germany. In another episode, a gun-waving 17-year-old from Detroit forced the crew of a Mexico City to Miami Pan American jetliner to fly to Havana. The two hijackings brought to 56 the total reported this year (47 to Havana alone). They also proved once again that no airliner anywhere is immune...
...hopes of meeting greater risks profitably, Lloyd's underwriters have increased their premiums and are aiming at leadership in new coverage. Underwriters have been meeting with executives from Pan Am, TWA and BOAC, which are seeking insurance for their new jumbo jets. What Lloyd's needs most is rich new members to cover its risks; its scouts are out scouring the golf courses and grouse shoots to get them. This year the governing committee accepted the first 16 underwriters from outside the Commonwealth. Next year the "governors" will bend tradition even more. For the first time...
...through constant use: a toilet float that rises and falls with the tide on the Thames River in London, a gigantic pair of scissors to replace the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., a huge windshield wiper for Grant Park in Chicago, a melting Good Humor bar to replace the Pan Am Building in New York. Nor are all the monuments big. The most poignant, in fact, is the smallest-a fallen hat for "a London street" to commemorate Adlai Stevenson...
...Alitalia last month applied to the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board, which has to approve all fares between the U.S. and foreign points, for a $299 ticket price on the Rome-New York run between Nov. 1 and March 31. Last week Pan American and TWA petitioned the CAB for an identical fare. The board is likely to approve. By acting without the consent of the International Air Transport Association, the three lines threatened the whole labyrinthine fare structure and set the stage for a searching reassessment...
...little as $150. The scheduled carriers are particularly disturbed by abuses of the "affinity rule," which decrees that only members of bona fide organizations can take charter flights. Recently, a group calling itself the "International Order of Old Bastards" arranged a charter trip from the U.S. to Mallorca. Unamused, Pan Am executives complained to the CAB; meanwhile the flight was canceled...