Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lament, and otherwise express on cue their sympathies for the story being "made" in their midst. At the end, following the shamanistic purging performed by the women's "Dance of Life," the shamans invite members of the audience to join in the final frenzied clamor of the nan-jang-pan...
...have responded to the recent spate of terrorist hijackings by deploying heavily armed guards and armored vehicles at airports. Although reluctant to discuss what other safety measures have been taken to meet new threats, airline officials insist that both detection technology and security personnel are under constant review. Explains Pan Am Spokesman James Arey: "The terrorists out there use every nugget of information to help develop their master plan." Some insiders, however, are skeptical. An Alitalia pilot believes that terrorist attacks galvanize airport security police into only temporary vigilance. "That lasts about a week," he complains. Too often, the normal...
...Washington at the age of 75, there was no formal obituary in the Washington Post or the New York Times, no memorial service, no flowers. He was quietly buried at a private funeral in Liberty, Ill. "No one ever knew where he came from," says Russell Adams, a retired Pan Am vice president who occasionally dined with Doole at the International Club in Washington. "No one knew he was dying. No one even knew he was sick." Doole preferred it that way. When he entered Washington Hospital Center last year, he told his sisters back in Illinois that...
...aggie school at the University of Illinois, where he kept to himself. "We were not real buddy- buddy," says his sister Mildred Nation. "We minded our own business." Winning a commission in the Army in 1931, Doole learned how to fly airplanes. He later became a pilot for Pan Am, at first flying old Ford Tri-motors on the Guatemala-to-Panama run. Along about 1953--no one seems quite sure when --Doole made an unusual career move. He went to work for the Central Intelligence Agency...
...Olympic distance runner Steve Prefontaine was killed in a drunk driving accident. Atlanta Hawks guard Terry Furlow died in 1980 after a drug problem. The 1983 Pan Am Games were marred by the departure of several U.S. team members who left after Games officials announced they would perform drug tests on athletes...