Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Electronic Banker. An electronic savings-bank system built by the Teleregister Corp., Stamford, Conn, handles 4,500 transactions hourly, accommodates up to 250,000 savings accounts. The data-processing system uses magnetic "memory" drums to control accounts, display uncleared check conditions, signal overdrafts, give tellers instantaneous access to any account. For the first customer, Howard Savings Institution of Newark, the "magnetronic savings-account system" will centrally record deposits and withdrawals made at the main office and five branch banks, saving customers' time and eliminating bulky manual records...
...Access to Education...
...statement in the CRIMSON typified the feeling in most of the world outside of the South: "Now, finally, the Supreme Court's decision outlawing segregation will eliminate this whole problem [of second-rate citizenship] at one stroke. It will give the Southern Negro access to the education without which he can never hope to achieve equal status...
Border Incident. In Santa Susana, Calif., Cafe Proprietor Irene Sundberg, suing her landlady for $7,000 damages, testified that she had cut off the restaurant's water supply, let air out of customers' tires, fired at them with a shotgun, erected a fence preventing access to a butane tank that serves the cafe's cooking stove...
...careful, however, to prevent overextending the educational facilities offered, Brandeis has been the frequent target of criticism on a quantitative basis. Its only graduate school is a small (150) one in arts and sciences, and critics clamor for a medical school--as a haven for Jewish medical students denied access elsewhere because of apparent quota limitations...