Word: panning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American's C. R. Smith; Malcolm Maclntyre left Eastern. Last week one of the greatest pioneers of them all relinquished some of the controls-although, like Smith and Patterson, he retained the post of chief executive. Just turned 65, Juan Terry Trippe gave up the presidency of Pan American, a seat he has held zestily since he founded the airline...
Scarcely five years out of Yale ('22) when he started his airline, Trippe nursed it with force and farsightedness. Pan Am began as a handful of flying boats shuttling 110 miles between Key West and Cuba; its 73,000 miles of routes now connect 85 nations, and last year's earnings of $33.6 million on $561 million in revenues were the most ever made by any airline. Gray has been in on practically all of this growth. A member of the first group of pilots hired by Pan Am in 1929, he was the first commercial flyer...
...Pan American this week is running a test flight with the Sony system...
...aids, essential in a political corridor only 20 miles wide, have been knocked out by tinsel strewn from Russian planes. Worst of all, MIG fighters have 3 buzzed the commercial planes or escorted them wing tip to wing tip in an effort to un nerve pilots. "Crisis," sighs one Pan Am executive, "is a way of life...
Beards & Banns. To keep morale flying high in that way of life, Pan Am operates its "airline within an airline" with reckoned informality and a tolerant disregard for some rules that bind most other air crews. The 166 flight crewmen, some of whom have flown the Berlin run for more than a decade, have a certain derring-do, and Pan Am even allows them to cultivate combat-veteran beards. The 109 German stew ardesses are permitted to fly after they marry. Indeed, many are married to their own pilots...