Word: pans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert Altman's Thieves Like Us opens with a gentle pan from the hazy skyline of a Mississippi morning across a field of grass along the tracks where a chain gang's flatcar rolls through a thicket, and to the pond where two convicts paddle a boat ashore and escape into a car which pulls into view as the camera completes its circle. All the way around, it pans a whole expansive environment, a distance of soft green and damp air which will dominate the film, cushioning the violence of its bank robber heroes like their own lonely needs...
...agents fly nostalgic World War II G.I.s to Pearl Harbor commemorations every December. But as with much else in the land of rising statistics, the Japanese effort appears to be much bigger, or at least more zealous. Last year about 6,000 Japanese toured World War II battlegrounds. A Pan Am jumbo jet last month brought 300 pilgrims home from Saipan, Guam and Tinian; another 400 will soon be leaving on a cruise ship for the burning sands of Iwo Jima, where no fewer than 20,000 Imperial troops died in combat. Later this year, other battleground pilgrims will visit...
...private enterprise. For the better part of 15 years, the two giant U.S. international airlines, Pan American and TWA, have been competing on roughly equal terms with a host of nationalized, subsidized foreign carriers ranging from Air France to Air India. But last week both Pan Am and TWA applied to the Civil Aeronautics Board for the first subsidies they themselves have received since the 1950s. In separate petitions, the two lines contended, in effect, that without federal help they will go broke combating two trends: a drop of about 5% in passenger traffic and, far more damaging, a breathtaking...
...Pan Am, which carries 48% of America's international air traffic, received its last subsidy in 1958, a payment of some $200,000 for Latin American operations. Predicting a $374 million fuel bill for 1974 ($204 million over the 1973 total), Chief Executive William Sea well last week asked the CAB for a $194 million annual subsidy. Seawell, who last year piloted his fleet into the profit column for the first time in five years, told the CAB: "We were overwhelmed in our efforts to stay in the black." TWA, which unlike Pan Am has a far-flung network...
...lines, along with Alitalia, have been considering a pooling of equipment and passengers on international flights. Pan Am applied last month for permission to discuss such an arrangement, and the CAB approved it last week. But the Justice Department formally objected on antitrust grounds; the subsidy applications promptly followed. CAB Chairman Robert Timm has expressed public support for the idea of federal financial assistance to U.S. international airlines to help them pay for excessive fuel costs, and legislation is pending in Congress to provide exactly that assistance. The only alternative appears to be outright nationalization...