Word: round-the-world
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...stands to benefit from an arrangement that may enable it to use Iran Air's supersonic planes on its round-the-world routes and will give it a chance to squeeze more performance out of its underutilized computer by taking over Iran Air's reservations business. The massive aid from Iran is sure to please Pan Am's major creditors, a group of insurance companies to which it owes about $389 million...
...side Porter was suddenly motioned to a chair in the Cabinet room as Ford strode in. He began scribbling notes for his boss on the new economic moves. There came a week when he raced to Andrews Air Force Base and clambered aboard a windowless jet for a round-the-world flight. From Tokyo to Bonn, a small group of officials dispatched by the President helped explain to allied governments Ford's ideas for reviving the economy. Over the Christmas holidays Porter followed Seidman to Vail, Colo., and was seated at dinner across from Gerald Ford, listening...
...Gish's urging, a 10? stamp with the film maker's profile was issued, and Lillian, now a buoyant 75, starred briefly at the opening of the Museum of Modern Art's Griffith festival in Manhattan. Then she headed for China on a round-the-world lecture tour. She is taking along a selection of silents, among them Griffith's The Lady and the Mouse and A Romance of Happy Valley. "Imagine," Gish said, "I had to borrow prints of those films from Russia. We don't have them. But they recognize film as powerful...
Also back - quite literally - on an old stomping ground last week was Chicago Correspondent Richard Woodbury, who reported to the Nation section on Round-the-World Walker David Kunst. Following on the heels of an earlier crack at peripatetic journalism - a glide-along with Cross-Country Roller Skater Clint Shaw last June -Woodbury logged ten huffing-and-puffing miles of legwork with the quick Kunst against a stiff head wind on a northern Iowa road...
...first act after graduation was to marry a childhood companion, Mary Todhunter Clark, member of a Philadelphia Main Line family that spent summer vacations near the Rockefeller home on the coast of Maine. The couple's ten-month, round-the-world honeymoon was more like a state visit, as members of both prestigious families vied to introduce them to sheiks, princes, poets and artists...