Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exposure came only after an inquisitive gambling-syndicate man from New York hired a private detective to learn how the young big spender was bankrolling his betting. Reporter Dick Carlson of San Francisco's KGO-TV got wind of the quiz, did some probing on his own account, and became convinced it was a matter for the state Attorney General's office. Within hours after examining the agency's books, the hawkeyes latched onto the ABAG leakage, but by then it was already too late. Truax had fled, and ABAG, which had held such glowing promise...
...Orthodox Jew, Ben-Uri argues that his version of the ark is evidence that, for all of today's demythologizing, the Bible has a basis in fact. "I be lieve," says he, "that the Bible is a true account of what actually happened. It is up to us to unravel its secrets...
...fascinated by Norman Mailer's 90,000-word reflections on the follies of last fall's Washington Peace March. Mailer flails himself as much as he does other Mailerian targets-Nazis, cancer, L.B.J., newspapers, and TIME. Indeed, Mailer begins by fully quoting TIME'S Oct. 27 account of his performance on the stage of Washington's Ambassador Theater at a rally before the Pentagon march began. Drunk he was, and he admits it. But the crisp account of Mailer's role in the events that followed is bathed in the harsh, dry light of hangover...
Stretching the Imagination. As part of his recent diversification drive, Bloomingdale has gone into a number of new fields directly related to credit. Through acquisition, he has set up National Account Systems, a group of collection agencies that handles overdue accounts for banks and retailers as well as for the club itself. Another new subsidiary is Financial Services Inc., a two-year-old data-processing firm established to provide credit checks for various businesses...
...arrest by the KGB in 1962, Colonel Oleg Penkovsky of Soviet military intelligence funneled out to the West a steady stream of Moscow's most vital secrets. His side of the story was recounted in The Penkovsky Papers, published in 1965. Contact on Gorky Street is the autobiographical account of the British businessman, recruited by British intelligence, who befriended Penkovsky in Moscow and became his conduit to the West. The book is far more chilling than any of the fictional adventures of James Bond or Harry Palmer...