Word: pans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Undoubtedly the most pungent commentary on the U.N.'s Roman debacle was provided by Pan, a feisty, independent conference newspaper. Directing its barbs impartially, the impromptu daily tried to keep the delegates honest by running such headlines as GUILTY, GULLIBLE AND STUPID-THE IMAGE OPEC COUNTRIES SHOULD BEWARE OF. As a prod to flabby consciences, the puckish Pan staff set up a scale in the delegates' lounge and encouraged overweight representatives to donate a $3-per-lb. "fat tax" to its antihunger crusade. About $150 was collected -perhaps the most tangible expression of good faith seen in Rome...
What makes Macdonald original, perhaps irreplaceable as a pan-critic (in both senses of "pan") is in fact a latent romanticism. More than his victims can appreciate, he is a genial curmudgeon, teetering on the very edge of hope. He growls partly to keep from being played for a sucker. Macdonald might even be called an American Bernard Shaw, if Shaw had written only prefaces or if Macdonald had written plays. Besides, that is to say, these marvelous little one-act monologues, featuring the persona he made of himself. ·Melvin Maddocks...
...which he grew to feel so remote that he revised many of the most successful passages and even excised some of his most famous poems from new editions. While he once kept light and serious verse considerably apart, in Thank You, Fog he mixes them with such a dead-pan expression that he is rarely very serious or very witty...
Full Marriage. For passengers, the agreement will mean fewer and more crowded flights to cities outside the mainland U.S., though traffic is not heavy enough to produce any actual shortage of seats. TWA will discontinue its flights to Germany, leaving Pan Am the only U.S. carrier serving that country; Pan Am in return will surrender all but one of its flights to France, Portugal, Spain and Morocco. Both carriers will trim their U.S.-to-London schedules. Pam Am will get most of TWA's transpacific routes to such places as Bangkok, Guam and Bombay, but will turn over...
...Pan Am Chairman William T. Seawell and TWA Chairman Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. estimate that the swaps will save each airline at least $25 million a year, and some Wall Street analysts think the savings could run double that. The deal is not certain to go through. The Justice Department may register antitrust objections, since approval of the agreement would reverse the Government's overall policy of insisting that at least two U.S.-flag airlines serve each major overseas route. The CAB favors the agreement in general, but it still must approve the details. On the other hand...