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Secrets Galore. Swiss banks hold $3,000 worth of riches for each Swiss inhabitant, but their greatest treasure is the anonymous sanctuary of numbered accounts. Only two or three bank officers usually know the true identity of the depositors. The bankers also assign false names to all such depositors (obtaining a specimen signature of the alias) so that nobody can present a lucky string of numbers to a teller and walk away with a secret fortune. Any banker who violates what the law calls "his duty to observe silence or professional secrecy" faces a fine...
...like almost all other Cunard passenger liners, on the banks of Scotland's River Clyde, in the yards of John Brown & Co. With British shipyards ailing, John Brown pared its bid almost to cost to win the largest ship order in British history. This summer the company will assign 5,500 workers to the task of putting together the 58,000-ton Queen...
...Cambridge City Council yesterday asked Police Chief Daniel J. Brennan assign five, full-time specially-trained officers to rout out the drug traffic in Harvard Square. At the same time, the Council scheduled a meeting with City, County, and state officials for next Monday to discuss further measures to combat...
Sullivan and Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci exhorted the police chief to assign more men to the Harvard Square area. Vellucci had asked Brennan about a month ago--in an order passed by the council--to establish a special narcotics squad, but Brennan replied yesterday that "special members of the Crime Prevention Bureau" were adequate...
Most important of all is to cultivate the right people. The rule of thumb, Smith suggests, is to assign each individual a numerical value-a member of the old aristocracy ten points, any millionaire eight, a corporation lawyer six, an obscure artist two, a clerk 0, a factory worker minus one, a Japanese (except in California) minus three-then allot each a proportionate amount of attention. Add to this a "respectful, alert, eager to learn and anxious to serve" demeanor toward ecclesiastical superiors, and eventually someone will tell the powers that be, "Jim Goodfellow is the man you are looking...