Word: bank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investigator to investigate the jurors. Similarly, while the McClellan committee checked on Hoffa, Fitzgerald hired a private eye to ogle three committee investigators. Finally, when a federal judge was rumored ready to freeze assets of two Teamster locals, Fitzgerald had $25,000 withdrawn from each local's bank account and held in ready cash "to operate, and pay any attorney's fees...
Pakistan's quarrels with India have been so virulent that outsiders have had to intervene-the U.N. to separate the armies in Kashmir, the International Bank to arbitrate rights to the Indus River waters. This summer, trouble flared along East Pakistan's ill-marked borders, and once again Pakistan's Moslem Leaguers whooped it up for holy war. Customarily, any politician who talks on India in conciliatory tones risks political suicide. But Feroz Khan Noon, the tall, Oxford-educated aristocrat who became Pakistan's seventh Prime Minister last winter, decided that such irresponsible fire-breathing...
...sketch this scene to convey something of the spirit of the Rue de Salaud--approximately sixteen blocks of cold-water flats, back stairs, and cracked plaster stretching from the Radcliffe Graduate Center to Central Square. This is the Left Bank of the Charles, the garret-estate of the unwashed literati, the tenements of the night-crawler--that interim period creature who walks the Cambridge streets between Commencement and Summer School...
...Loses job at State Bank, named chairman of the Economic Council of Stravropol in the Caucasus...
...anything they wanted to, including standing in the lobby of the Moskva Hotel as one American girl did, waving a $20 bill until someone came up to her and bought it at 25 rubles per dollar. (The official rate is four to the dollar; tourists get ten at the bank...