Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LAST BATTLE, by Cornelius Ryan. As he proved in his D-day marathon, The Longest Day, the author is a thorough reporter, and his account of the fall of Berlin is an encyclopedic and frequently exciting narrative...
...Times swung into action. It took some 50 reporters and photographers off other jobs and poured them into the riot-torn streets. To get as much of the inside story as possible, the paper turned a Negro advertising salesman into a reporter who provided a graphic eyewitness account. Times-men in other parts of the U.S. and abroad were alerted to file stories on the reaction to the turmoil. A Times reporter in Athens interviewed vacationing California Governor Pat Brown. Once Watts calmed down, Timesmen were sent back to search out the causes of the riots. Their combined labor produced...
Like most traveling businessmen, insurance agents consider credit cards all but indispensable. Lately, however, agents have been alarmed to find that one of the fastest growing credit-card items is insurance itself. Thirty card systems and charge-account issuers now sell and service simple policies from travel and accident to term life insurance. So far, more than a dozen insurance companies are writing the policies...
Others have happily joined in. Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) sells auto and travel accident policies written by its own insurance subsidiary; Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott & Co. department store offers Concord Life $10,000 term life insurance to its charge-account customers. Though the card companies earn only a modest fee of 20? to 50? on each premium billed, they are eager to offer new services and thus keep otherwise dormant accounts active...
...Pauline, Napoleon's second sister, generally considered the most likable of the Bonapartes, was a nymphomaniac who, according to Stacton's account, "treated men as she treated clothes: if she did not like them, she wore them only once; if she did, she wore them out." In Auguste de Forbin, a society painter "endowed with a usable gigantism," she found a man who wore her out. To the horror of her husband, Prince Camillo Borghese, she went through money even faster than men, but she always found cash when Big Brother needed it. Were she and Napoleon lovers...