Word: panning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Born. To Victoria Fyodorova Pouy, 30, Soviet actress who came to the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 10, 1975) to see for the first time her ailing natural father, retired Rear Admiral Jackson R. Tate, a Moscow-based naval attache during World War II, and Frederick Pouy, 38, Pan American World Airways pilot: their first child, a son; in Greenwich, Conn...
Thus, only in its Pan-Africanist form is Afro-American Studies a viable department. We are the ones who want a regular and serious academic department! George Rivera Chairman of the Concentrators Afro-American Studies Department
...airline prospects. Traffic in the first three months was roughly 15% above its 1975 level and the industry, lifted by the performance of its strongest lines, has hopes of making an overall profit this year-perhaps as much as $200 million. Even the most troubled carriers -American, Eastern, TWA, Pan American and United-are not expected to show catastrophic losses, and some could even produce a small profit...
...carriers are also striving to cut costs. Eastern has frozen employees' wages, and United laid off 350 workers in March; Pan Am has cut operating costs by $30 million by dropping some of its least profitable flights. On all the carriers, first class is taking a back seat as more vacationers and businessmen settle for coach. To accommodate the trend and squeeze out more revenue, the airlines are pursuing a strategy that will scarcely be cheered by their customers: they are removing about 6,500 first-class seats-some 30% of the total-and replacing them with...
...capital was opened to the public last week-40 months behind schedule. In some ways the delay seemed worthwhile. The silver-and-chocolate-colored trains, guided by computers, glide at speeds of up to 75 m.p.h. on cushioned rails. For security, there are TV cameras that tilt, pan and zoom, as well as cops on every train. Many of the stations will feature $1-a-day "Park & Ride" lots for motorists, "Bike & Ride" racks for cyclists and even "Kiss & Ride" lanes for commuters who are driven to the train and dropped off. What with inflation, the system will cost...