Word: panning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Series telecasts on its Chicago-Los Angeles flights. United Air Lines has just started showing cabin-screened movies on its Honolulu run, plans to extend the service soon to its transcontinental flights. Continental Air Lines next month will inaugurate a Golden Marquee movie service with small TV screens, and Pan American World Airways, Eastern Air Lines and several other lines are studying plans for providing their passengers with escapo-vision too. So swiftly has entertainment taken hold in the airline industry that delegates to the International Air Transport Association, meeting in Athens last week, spent much of their time debating...
...inauguration last week, Panama's President Marco Aurelio Robles, 58, had only to look around to see what he is up against. Across the street from the Legislative Palace, where he took the oath of office, stood the burned-out husk of the Pan American Airways Building, destroyed in last January's Canal Zone riots. On rooftops around the palace, troops with rifles at the ready guarded against a rumored assassination attempt. Inside, a handful of opposition Congressmen managed to delay the inauguration two hours with a noisy parliamentary argument. Yet Robles brimmed with confidence. "I have never...
Died. Nacio Herb Brown, 68, composer of such enduring Tin Pan arias as You're an Old Smoothie, Singing in the Rain, Pagan Love Song and Should I Reveal?; of cancer; in San Francisco...
...Greeks had neither violins nor cellos, so it was not exactly as if Pan and Apollo had joined up on Olympus for a return engagement. But to many a Manhattan music lover, it seemed the next thing to it. It had been eight years since Violinist Jascha Heifetz, 63, retired from the concert stage, grumbling that "It requires the nerves of a bullfighter, the vitality of a woman who runs a nightclub, and the concentration of a Buddhist monk." It had been seven years since his fellow Russian, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, 61, was last heard in Manhattan...
...Carpeting is one of the cushiest innovations in new school design. Since Peter Pan elementary school in Andrews, Texas, was carpeted in 1956, some 500 schools have joined the growing trend...