Word: pans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more flash-in-the-pan for Bergman fans: everyone manages to notice the broken tricycle during Bibi Andersson's naked crying-jag in the stairwell scene; the camera lingers long enough to mark the symbolism. We have no definitive answers, but "Rosebud" ought to be enough to start the search for meaning...
Unlike a majority of the returning varsity, most of the freshmen swam on AAU or club teams during the summer, and have come to school with a definite training edge: One freshman, Dave Brum well, was a member of the Canadian national team that went to the Pan American games in South America this summer...
...This year the motif is "Expo-Trans-Port," and the fair features an impressive mock-up of the new four-terminal airport presently under construction between Dallas and Fort Worth. There is also a new emphasis on Texas ethnic groups (German Day, Czech Day) and a growing spirit of Pan-Americanism. Cattlemen from Argentina, Nicaragua and Costa Rica flock to the fair to buy prime breeding cattle. They are treated like visiting royalty, right down to a barbecue for 1,500 on Lamar Hunt's Circle T Ranch. While the wealthy Latin Americans take the 5,000-acre spread...
Geisha Girls. Halaby is in a race against time. As the economy gains speed, air travel is certain to pick up. Last week Pan Am officials announced a 1.5% rise over 1970 in passenger revenue miles for the month of September. This year depreciation write-offs on Pan Am's 747s and an $80 million sale-and-lease-back arrangement with the Port of New York Authority on a maintenance facility at New York's Kennedy Airport will probably hold losses down close to last year's level. Halaby has also pledged to improve marketing and service...
Such efforts should pay off, but it may be years before the company climbs out of the red. That schedule may worry the consortium of 38 banks that has extended Pan Am $300 million in a revolving credit arrangement. More crucial for Halaby's career, it may not satisfy the company's board of directors, many of whom remember the high-flying days of the 1960s. "I know there's time enough for Pan Am," says Halaby. "I hope there is enough...