Word: pans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the troops make the flight to the West Coast in chartered commercial DC-8s and 707s that can carry up to 250 G.I.s at a time. Such carriers as Pan Am, TWA and Flying Tiger are being paid a total of $6,000,000 to aid the 60-day withdrawal operation. U.S. Air Force jet transports are also being used to help carry the 23,700 troops home. Actually, the job is far less difficult than the massive earlier withdrawal of troops; more than 70,000 men, for example, were pulled out in a two-month period early...
...essays are an attempt to apply to everyday myth the tools of semiology, the science of signs sketched out in Barthes's earlier works and the works of his mentor, the linguist Saussure. Viewing all the products of culture as systems of signs, Barthes has created a kind of "pan-criticism" which, although it has made him best known as a literary critic, takes in anything from Racine to underground film to popular magazines...
...Najeeb Halaby, 57, left Pan American World Airways last year after the company had suffered more than $100 million in losses during his 27-month leadership. "I remember calling my 17-year-old son at school and telling him that I had quit," says Halaby. "His first reaction was, 'Welcome back to civilization.' " Halaby reacquainted himself with civilization by taking three weeks off to play golf and tennis. Then he formed a $1,000,000 venture-capital company based in Hong Kong that will make investments in engineering, construction, electronics and other projects in Southeast Asia...
...wonder if whoever did the story on Rome's Fiurnicino Airport [Dec. 25] has heard a joke that sums up the situation neatly. It goes something like this: A Pan Am flight (we'll call it 123) is approaching Rome and the tower tells the pilot to go to 10,000 ft. and hold. He acknowledges, and his first officer says, "Say, didn't I hear them give the same instructions to BOAC 456, coming in behind us?" "Hey, I think so," says the captain. "I'd better call in and ask them." So he calls...
...comparison is somewhat distorted by a $10 million refund on Pan Ain's supersonic transport order that reduced Pan Am s reported loss last year...