Word: panning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...China.) Inter-Continental Hotels plans to build within three years a chain of 1,000-room hotels, complete with swimming pools and saunas, in Peking Canton, Shanghai and other major cities. Hyatt International has proposed the construction of hotels with a total capacity of 10,000 rooms. Pan American and several other airlines have entered bidding for landing rights in China to bring in the tourist trade on a major scale...
...Japanese aid to Asia: It is natural from a geographic viewpoint [that] Japan should continue to place emphasis on Asia. The pan-Pacific region is not like Europe. The economies are in different stages of development, the quality of the economies is different, and any associations are very loosely tied. The ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] does exist, however, and it must be respected, but it is not like the European Community association. This means that our aid will move more on the bilateral plane [instead of being filtered through the regional association...
...anthropologist from the University of California at Santa Cruz has added new fire to the debate. Adrienne Zihlman not only supports the molecular chronology for the crucial split, but also nominates the probable common ancestor: an animal that looked, and perhaps behaved, very much like the contemporary pygmy chimp Pan paniscus...
Peking hopes that tourism will provide foreign exchange needed to help pay for its ambitious economic development plans. Indeed, Intercontinental's hopes of pioneering in China (other firms will also surely be invited in) got a crucial lift last October, when Pan Am Chairman William T. Sea well had a meeting in Peking with China's Deputy Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, who is the regime's leading proponent of rapid development...
...Intercontinental deal should further Pan Am's hope of resuming service to China, which it suspended in the early '40s. For the past year, the airline has been running a heavily booked six-day China tour (total cost: about $1,145 double occupancy), but it has had to fly its customers to Tokyo or Hong Kong for transfer to Chinese planes or ground transportation. That may not always be necessary. Earlier this year, Pan Am gave up its routes to both Moscow and Taiwan. Though the company denies it, those moves look as if they might have been aimed...