Word: panning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole lobbying effort will reach a high point this week when the treaty is signed at the Pan American Union building in Washington. On hand will be 15 heads of state from Latin America, the largest gathering of its kind in the hemisphere since 1967. Whether this televised inter-American consensus will prove effective is another matter. White House mail is running 8 to 1 against the treaty. Administration head counters claim that 58 Senators are already willing to vote in favor of the pact; only nine more would give Carter the two-thirds approval he needs, but they...
...lines (TWA, Pan American, British Airways, Air-India, Iran Air and El Al) will offer free meals on flights; Laker would charge passengers $3 for a steak dinner. In addition, travelers may reserve seats on any of the six carriers by paying for their tickets three weeks in advance of departure; thereafter they would be accepted on a stand-by basis only. Laker's plan allows no reservations. It runs on a first-come, first-served basis, with ticket counters opening six hours before flight time...
...drop from 65 in 1976 to 37 this year, the company has already booked orders for 54 planes to be finished in 1978. Executives and industry analysts expect the upturn to continue. Some airlines have more money to buy planes because traffic is rising and earnings are improving (even Pan Am may report a profit for the first time in nine years...
...lead trainees to the Siddhis, or supernatural powers. These include the ability to walk through walls, feel infinite compassion, become invisible. But the most controversial of the Siddhis is levitation-the ability to hover in midair and fly around the room, as one TM teacher puts it, "like Peter Pan...
...aggressive Iranians have been scouting the world for imaginative long-term investments. But although they succeeded in making a deal for a 25% interest in Krupp, the West German heavy-manufacturing complex, they have not pursued any similar investment in the U.S. since their abortive attempt to buy into Pan American Airways in 1975. Lately, Iranian investment money has been appearing in the U.S. in less politically sensitive ventures like real estate, notably in New York, California and Louisiana...