Word: pans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even in stable Lebanon, the fever of Pan-Arabism that Nasser had loosed in the Middle East ran dangerous and strong. Said the newspaper L'Orient: "The country finds itself in a situation which literally calls for a war Cabinet-war for internal peace and order...
Wrapped up in Cape Canaveral's future is an organization as complex as a missile itself. It is an industrial cooperative of 15,000 acres, operated for the Air Force by Pan American World Airways and RCA. The facilities are shared by a score of missile contractors (e.g., Convair, Lockheed, General Electric), who use the testing equipment and range for development of their projects for the Army, Navy and Air Force. The man who makes it run is Air Force Major General Donald Yates (West Point '31). Headquartered at Patrick Air Force Base, 18 miles south...
...Nietzsche Archive, where she exhibited Nietzsche, white-gowned and empty-eyed, to teatime guests. But she allowed no one else a look at the manuscripts, put together her brother's last writings in a volume that she entitled The Will to Power. This is the book which pan-Germans and Nazis acclaimed as "Nietzsche's crowning philosophical work . . . the most important philosophical system of the 19th century...
...Pan American World Airways plane crash near Lisbon in 1943 all but ended the big-time careers of throaty Singer Jane (With a Song in My Heart) Froman and Accordionist Gypsy Markoff, both bound overseas to entertain troops. It was five years before Jane could walk again without crutches (she still wears an iron brace on one leg). By gritty determination Gypsy made her crippled left hand play an accordion again, never completely regained her former skill. So far, in compensation for physical injuries, each entertainer has collected from Pan Am a piddling $8,300-maximum allowable damages, under...
JETS TO EUROPE will start flying this fall, months ahead of schedule. Production of 600 m.p.h., 124-passenger Boeing 707-120s is moving so iast that Pan American World Airways will put three planes in service from New York to London (flight time: six hours) and Paris perhaps as early as October...