Word: panning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last year; the performance was enough to pull the nation's second largest carrier into the black for the second quarter and to cut losses for the first half from $81.8 million to $15.6 million. As travelers swarmed across the Atlantic and Pacific in unexpectedly high numbers, Pan American, helped by a good June, posted a net of $101.3 million for the quarter. "There's a big push to Britain," says an American Express official. "People seem to be going there for the bargains in merchandise...
Profit Plan. Some of the gains were not all they appeared to be. Pan American's net, for example, included an income tax credit of $30.8 million from prior losses; the airline has not turned a year-end profit in seven years and is selling off some of its older 707s to other airlines. At Miami-based Eastern, net income for the first half increased ten times, and the second-quarter results of $19.5 million were the best in the company's history. But part of the increase was due to a temporary wage freeze urged by former...
...hadn't wanted to play Doc Holiday (hired dentist, that is) to Felker's Wyatt Earp, and got out to do eye, ear, nose and throat on his own. But it seems he's never made it past tonsillectomies--his major contribution to the inaugural issue is a light pan of soft-core pornographic advertising. No tough social criticism here: his oh-so-cynical ending is a quote from some Madison Avenue flunky, "It's that honest and sincere." No, Rosenbaum is a hard sell...
...minimize" the investment activities of multinational corporations. "I think I could feel comfortable with him," said David Mahoney, chairman of Norton Simon, after the lunch. "And for an avowed Republican, that's progress." Lehman Bros. Chairman Peter Petersen, who was briefly a member of the Nixon Cabinet, and Pan American Chief Executive William Seawell, also a Republican, were among other guests who found Carter impressive...
...When our hero and heroine encounter a cuddlesome old hermit (Peter Ustinov) living on the outside in the gutted U.S. Capitol, they seem to be trapped in some unstable photographic solution, shifting in and out of focus as if the whole image were being washed around in a developing pan. The great domed city of the future is rather too obviously a model- it looks like part of an electric train set- and its main thoroughfare resembles a suburban shopping mall. Indeed, pushing their vision of the future to its limits, Director Michael Anderson and MGM actually shot these scenes...