Word: panning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Longest walk: 1,500 ft. Baggage checkout: fast. Hotels/Motels: good. International Hotel within airport. Five others close by. Amenities: adequate. Well-decorated but deteriorating terminals and lounges. Standard fast-food cafeterias. Best restaurant: Terrace Restaurant. Twenty bars, most close 10:30 p.m. Barbershops and beauty shops. In Pan Am and TWA buildings, circulating carts exchange foreign currency. Animal shelter. Hospital open 24 hr. Overall: easier on the eye than on the nerves...
...Force colonel at the Pentagon wisecracked that the U.S. might eventually have to "charter an air force from Pan Am." Better yet, said another, in case of conflict "we could subcontract the whole war." Still others joked bitterly about how the service had suffered "its highest attrition rate ever on a single...
Hundreds of towns have their boostering stunts. Tiny Pittsfield, Me., will hold the Central Maine Egg Festival, with 600 eggs being scrambled simultaneously in one frying pan 10 ft. in diameter. Jacksonville, Fla., just turned out to celebrate the end of pollution in the Saint Johns River, with stunt flyers, hot-air balloons, parachute jumping, the mayor waterskiing, and trucks dumping hundreds of fish into the cleaned-up waterway. In the Texas hill country, the tiny town of Luckenbach (pop. 6), now made famous by Waylon Jennings' country-and-western song about the simple life there, is holding Saturday night...
Beyond London. The British had been pressing for a year to overhaul the Bermuda Agreement. They felt that the three U.S. carriers covered by it-Pan American, TWA and National-were getting too much of the North Atlantic business. In 1976 U.S. carriers earned revenues of about $375 million on U.S.-to-Britain runs, while the state-owned British Airways got only $274 million. British airline officials also complained that the U.S. lines got a far better deal in carrying passengers from America beyond London to other European capitals and the Far East: $170 million from those routes for American...
...some other points. The British dropped their demand for a fixed fifty-fifty split of North Atlantic revenues. American negotiators also fended off British attempts to regulate passenger loads and flight frequencies by government decree; the U.S. agreed only to a "consultative" process if, say, the British complain that Pan Am is scheduling too many New York-London flights. The next move is up to the Carter Administration. It must decide which U.S. airlines get the new runs from Atlanta and Dallas-Fort Worth to London...