Word: pans
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Parker won the men's single sculling event at the 1959 Pan American Games and placed fifth in the 1960 Olympics...
...limos and family estates have never made Buckley a stuffy Puritan-style conservative. On the contrary, Buckley defines the Peter Pan syndrome of politics, forever lost in the dodges that spell success in prep school, now substituting serious political essays on supply side economics for explications of Victorian poetry. In his first spy novel, Buckley had his obviously autobiographically based Yalie Blackford Oakes finish his mission Saving the Queen with a final climax in the private royal chambers. The real life Buckley probably wouldn't go that far outside his imagination but the pranks still go on. At a swearing...
...understandable that, given his preference, Ueberroth would choose team handball as the most provocative event of the summer. "Games get labels," he says. "Munich." Murder. "The Pan American Games in Caracas." Steroids. For all the planning preceding an Olympics, it is still a dice game: one throw. This is not an altogether unappealing feature...
With a splash of purple-worded publicity ("breakfast in London . . . predinner swim at Waikiki"), U.S. commercial aviation last week made its long-awaited move to jet-propelled aircraft. Pan American World Airways signed contracts for 25 Douglas DC-8s and 20 Boeing 707 four-jet airliners. It was the first deal to buy U.S. commercial jets. Total price: $269 million, the biggest in airline history. The deal is certain to be followed by purchase orders from other carriers. National Airlines is expected to sign for six DC-8s on which it took a verbal option last August. For the traveler...
...James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan and other whimsies, was thoroughly vexed at the noise above his apartment in Adelphi Terrace, London. At 3 a.m. he sent a note of protest to the disturbers. At 5 a.m. the noise and the party ceased. The party was given by two newlyweds, David Tennant (son of Viscountess Grey of Fallodon) and Mrs. Tennant (nee Hermione Baddeley, actress). They wore orange sleeping suits of silk; the guests, too, came in blazing pajamas; many brought bottles of hair restorers, ink, gasoline, Thames water. Champagne was not lacking. After the party, Mrs. Tennant said...