Word: panning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great idea for an act. All we need is $200 for sets." "You're daffy," said George, and for the next 35 years she was indeed-a treasure trove of malapropisms, non sequiturs and nit-witty ideas that somehow always managed to pan out just before the commercial, making Gracie and her husband George one of the earliest, and certainly longest-lived situation comedy teams...
...quickly saw that shaky MEA could not fly solo, first enlisted the help of Pan American, then of BOAC, and finally of Air France, which got a 30% share of the line last year when Middle East merged with Air Liban. Gradually he built up an organization, trained a staff and carefully picked efficient routes. Today Middle East has a predominantly modern fleet that includes 12 jet and turboprop planes for scheduled routes, six DC-3s and a DC-4 in reserve. Backed by Beirut's Intra Bank and its shrewd chairman, Yusuf Bedas (who owns a 55% share...
Cognac for Breakfast. The line now covers 12 countries in the Middle East, has also extended its routes beyond the Arab countries to London and Paris, Liberia and the Ivory Coast and east to India and Pakistan. Eventually, Alamuddin hopes, it will become the nucleus of a Pan-Arab airline. It carries 350,000 passengers annually, has helped to push
...through an intricate maze of subsidiaries, span from the world's largest Scotch distillery, at Invergordon, to major holdings in downtown Toronto. Rayne, who has every intention of expanding his U.S. beachhead, figures that the planned G.M. building may well cost about as much as Manhattan's Pan Am building. That structure, which was 45% financed by a consortium of other British real estate men, ran to $100 million...
Last week Tung turned up in New York on a Pan American flight from Rome. The State Department denied any role in his escape from Burundi, and Tung himself made it clear that his defection had been his own idea. "I saw the hypocrisy of China long before I decided to defect," he explained. What had disillusioned him was Mao's treatment of intellectuals, who had been asked to criticize the regime and were then denounced as traitors. Equally repellent was Red China's abortive "backyard furnace campaign" of 1958, in which the government cynically asked every neighborhood...