Word: pans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Babylon, Beaux-Arts. Yamasaki will be faced with a problem that many notable architects come up against nowadays: working "in association with" another firm of building planners on the job. As in the case of the Gropius-Belluschi Pan Am Building in Manhattan, the "associates" will be the firm of Emery Roth & Sons, whose glassy budget ziggurats have transformed much of the city into a white-collar Babylon. Whether Yama can maintain his usual no-detail-is-too-small control over the project's construction is a question that bothers many of his fellow architects. Says...
...most of them family-dominated, rank as "The Princes of the City." The biggest of the tight-mouthed princes, who ignore common customers for corporations and countries, is Hambros Bank, Ltd., which has arranged financing for Scandinavian timber, South African diamonds and $20 million worth of Manhattan's Pan Am Building. In a move symbolic of the new direction that London's princely bankers are now taking, Hambros has just announced that in partnership with the U.S.'s Meyers Bros. Parking System it will build Euro-park parking garages in major European cities, starting in Germany...
Viva Fidel! Led by men wearing red T shirts and howling Viva Fidel!, raging mobs set fire to the Braniff and Pan American Airways buildings, the Sears Roebuck store and a Goodyear Rubber plant. The USIS office was destroyed. In the city of Colón, 38 miles away, another well-coordinated riot erupted. Along the border, Zone police tried to disperse the crowds with tear gas, fired in the air, at last lowered their aim. General Andrew P. O'Meara, commander of the U.S. Southern Command, sent Army troops to the border. Snipers from the Panamanian side started...
...Pan American Airways reinotated flights from Panama to the United States last Sunday, but nothing has been heard been Barghoorn since his call. The 107 will be given scheduled. A for the course, however, declined to say whether Barghoorn himself had composed it and phoned it in or whether is had designed...
Once Leahy has weeded a company's files-a twelve-week job in the typical large corporation-it is ready to provide additional services. For such clients as Pan American, Singer Manufacturing, W. R. Grace, Harris Trust and Florida Power & Light, it trundles back records to its own specially designed storage centers, which now hold 750 million pieces of paper. In an average eight minutes, it promises to find any one of the 200,000 back records that customers call for every year. As the statutes of limitations expire, old files are systematically churned into pulp. The company...