Word: panning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...backward economically (annual income is well below the $100 national average) but harbors people who are ethnically closer to the Laotians than to the Thais. Many village youths, impatient with government promises of progress and eager for what they fancy will be adventure, have been lured into the Phu Pan hills to join Communist-led bands...
Next day it was all fixed. Kauffmann played first-nightsville along with his colleagues. The premiere came off and so did Kauffmann's hour review (a murky pan). And when Merrick was pressed about the electrical troubles of the night before, he said, straight-faced: "A rat got in the generator." Positively, Mr. Merrick? Absolutely...
...business of investment banking-raising funds from the public through new corporate stock and bond issues-Lehman runs second (behind First Boston Corp.) with $1.7 billion of underwriting last year. Lehman partners and associates sit on the boards of more than 100 big U.S. corporations, including General Motors, RCA, Pan American Airways, Tidewater Oil, American Express and United Fruit. Altogether, Lehman Bros, guides or controls the investment of $2 billion of other people's money-more than any of its rivals...
Martin L. Kilson Jr., lecturer on government, asserted that the army is sure to retain control of Ghana. Nkrumah ran "an authoritarian regime with a fair dose of terrorism," Kilson said. He added that the people of Ghana resented Nkrumah's extravagant expenditures to promote the doctrine of Pan-Africanism...
Died. Will A. Dillon, 88, composer of such Tin Pan ditties as At the End of the Road and I'll Wed the Girl I Left Behind, but best remembered for his lyrics for I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad; of arteriosclerosis; in Ithaca...