Word: pia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ambitious helicopter service is the latest of a series of breakthroughs by Pakistan's small but surprisingly strong and aggressive airline. Playing both sides of the Sino-Soviet split, PIA this summer became the first foreign airline (besides Russia's Aeroflot) to gain landing rights in Red China, and the first foreign airline to win the right to fly through Moscow on the Europe-to-Asia...
Founded as a nationalized company in 1955 from the remnants of a rundown private airline, PIA ran up heavy financial losses and a horrendous safety record until Field Marshal Ayub Khan, after coming to power in 1958, installed a Pakistan Air Force commodore as PIA's boss. Commodore Nur Khan (no kin) fired seven senior captains, enforced strict discipline and turned PIA into one of the few nationalized airlines that make a profit. Khan gets no government subsidy and brooks no government meddling, runs PIA with a maximum of free enterprise...
There the moppets find them. The first to arrive are Fanny's two youngest-Caddie, 11, and Hugh, 14-who have run away from England determined to bring Mommy home. They are joined by Pia, Rob's ten-year-old daughter by a former marriage. The rest of the novel recounts the precocious intrigues by which the three children try to break up the romance and restore their respective parents to their proper homes...
Born. To Maria Pia, 28, Princess Royal of the House of Savoy, daughter of ex-King Umberto of Italy, and Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, 38: a twin boy and girl, their third son and first daughter, second set of twins; in Paris...
...poems, "A Mirror for Poets," Mr. Gunn described that age, so obviously like our own as to make the comparison banal, as a "violent time" which demanded its right to be taken seriously by whispering to the writer, "For feel my fingers in your pia mater. I am a cruelly insistent friend:/ You cannot smile at me and make an end." But when the explosion of tradition and the routini- zation of expression coincide, when the scenery falls down, the audience packs up, and all dialogue, even the best, reduces itself to threatening, because patterned, gibberish, the quality of dramatic...