Word: bank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pope. Several weeks ago a Bank of America officer moved into the village, quietly began listing everyone entitled to stock- from 18-month-old Orietta Perasso to 90-year-old Giovanni Ferretto. Unaccustomed to stocks and banks, or for that matter to generous, impulsive gestures from strangers, the villagers were suspicious. But last week all save a few skeptics donned feast-day clothes to sign their names-or "X"-to their Bank of America stock certificates. Few had decided what to do with their money. "We wait until tomorrow," said one peasant. "I might buy a suit." allowed another...
...Alec Guinness in The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Decks (NBC). Not long ago Guinness, perhaps best remembered, for his role as the dubious bank clerk in The Lavender Hill Mob, declared: "I have an absolutely unalterable rule-no more roles about a dubious bank clerk." For his TV debut, he played just such a clerk, who dubiously plots to avenge 22 years of thankless labor by humiliating the bank's brass. His scheme: instead of swiping the bank's funds, he adds his own money to them, creates total bookkeeping chaos, and rapidly advances toward the presidency when...
Lecturing last week at M.I.T., Dr. Otto Struve, director of the new National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, W. Va., announced a project that aims to bring earthlings out of their isolation. Starting New Year's Day or soon thereafter. Green Bank will point the observatory's 85-ft. parabolic reflector antenna at the most likely stars, listen for radio signals from planets around them...
...listening for artificial signals from space, but have only recently developed the equipment necessary for the job. Receivers, once confused by electric razors, passing trolleys and their own crackling vacuum tubes, can now be built to block out all conflicting interference. Antennas are being built ever larger: Green Bank already has a 140-footer under construction, has hopes for others 300 ft. and 1,000 ft. wide...
Disqualified. In San Francisco, after reeling into a bank and demanding some money while hammering on the teller's counter with a wine bottle, James R. Shaw, 51, was released by cops, who reckoned that he was much too drunk to be trying a serious holdup...