Word: pans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JORNAL DO BRASIL: Senhora Luce can be certain that the U.S. Senate debate did not in the least affect the Brazilian concept and appreciation of her personally. The predominant opinion, now that we will not have her here with us, is deep disappointment. Brazil's role in Pan-American development would have been ably treated by a diplomat with the extraordinary abilities and superior intelligence of Senhora Luce...
Taxpayers: Rich . . . The committee grew out of the "Operation Pan America'' that Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek proposed last June as a way of repairing the damage done by the stones flung at U.S. Vice President Nixon in Lima and Caracas one year ago. Kubitschek's idea man and delegate, Augusto Frederico Schmidt, frankly sees the committee as one more chance for Latin America to play Scheherazade to the U.S.'s sultan. "Every night," explained Schmidt, "we have to tell the U.S. a story so that we can continue to live. Perhaps after a thousand...
...Pan American-Grace Airways, which transports most of the tourists who visit Cuzco, has started a search to find the missing statue. Panagra reasons that if the foundry sent Powhatan to Peru, it may have sent Atahuallpa to some U.S. town square. He should be easy to spot. He is robust, with short-cropped hair, grave manner, handsome face, fierce eyes. He wears an elaborate band around his forehead, and a collar of large emeralds...
...Golf Club (among the members: Laurance Rockefeller, General Nathan Twining), complete with Robert Trent Jones-designed $600,000 golf course, and bought 25,000 acres of pink-beached paradise. Last week he was closing a deal to sell a sizable chunk of his acreage to a combine headed by Pan American World Airways President Juan Trippe. Howard Hughes controls Cay Sal, closest island (50 miles) to Cuba...
...inch, circular cake pan filled with earth was spun, and divided by a piece of lath. On each side of the barrier 23 kernels of corn were planted, and the pan was spun again to select the side to which "positive prayer" should be addressed. For eight days, prayer for growth was given to that side, prayer against growth to the other. Result: "Sixteen sturdy little seedlings greeted us on the positive side. On the negative side there was but one." Against that stubborn seedling the experimenters directed "several brief 'bursts' of negation-strong mental commands to grow...