Word: panning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prejudices of the region's macho-minded males, however, the White House is touting Rosalynn's trip as nothing less than a major diplomatic effort at interpreting the President's Latin American policy. The point of departure in all her meetings will be her husband's Pan American Day speech in Washington in April, which emphasized human rights, economic problems and arms control as matters of top priority in Latin American diplomacy. According to Robert Pastor, the National Security Council's expert on Latin American affairs, Rosalynn should not only "convey to the Latin American governments a sense of what...
...percentage of those who have taken to the air in helicopters is much smaller. One of the most interesting commercial helicopter flights in the country was begun in 1965 by New York Airways Inc., which launched flights to New York airports from the top of the 59-story Pan American Building in midtown Manhattan. For $25, a passenger could board a 30-person Sikorsky S-61 chopper and get to, say, Kennedy International in a mere ten minutes (v. about $16 and 45 minutes by taxicab...
...community groups renewed their denunciation of the skyscraper service as unsafe, though one Washington official argued that a similar accident at a ground-level helipad might have been no less devastating. At week's end New York Airways resumed flights between three local airports, but operations from the Pan Am Building were suspended pending the outcome of the accident investigation...
Within a decade after the war, Lindbergh's reputation was rehabilitated. Eisenhower reinstated him in the Air Force Reserve and promoted him to brigadier general. He had become a millionaire through his association with, among others, TWA and Pan Am. Lindbergh wandered the earth for Pan Am, trying out its planes, advising on air routes. But his spirit had changed. He felt far closer to nature than to machines. He wanted not so much his old exhilarations of flight as peace for the blue whales and the primitive Tasaday of the Philippines...
...Yemen Arab Republic. The four included Numeiry and Somalia's Red-lining President Mohamed Siad Barre, the Marxist President of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and the leader of the Yemen Arab Republic. They set aside differing political views long enough to agree on a pan-Arabic, pro-Moslem program against Ethiopia. Meanwhile neighboring Saudi Arabia, which has been pushing aid to Somalia in hopes of wooing it away from Moscow, is urging the U.S. to provide arms. The Saudis made the same pitch two years ago, but the U.S. demurred. The grounds: such a move...