Word: bank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Universal Suez Canal Co., the issue of compensating its owners approached settlement by due process of law and due pressure of power politics. Nasser was feeling the hurt of having $280 million in Egyptian assets frozen in the U.S. and Britain. Under the good offices of the World Bank, whose President Eugene Black himself flew to Cairo at the sticking point last month to press compromise on his friend Nasser, representatives of the old Canal Co. and the Egyptian government got together on a "general" financial agreement. Egypt's payment for the company's shares has been privately...
...best-played match of the afternoon, Larry Sears broke a 3-3 deadlock in his third set against Steve Bank to win 6-1, 3-6, 6-3. Sears' accurate passing shots, quick reflexes at the net, and sound strategy carried him to victory...
Adding insult to injury, the varsity swept the doubles with ease. Gallwey and Vinton won over Bortner and Bank at number one, 6-2, 5-7, 8-6. The newly formed pair of Sears and Weld won at second doubles, crushing Clark and Keys...
Sophomore Tim Gallwey will occupy the second position for the varsity. His opponent will be Steve Bank, who, like Gallwey, is small. Bank won over the slender lefty in the first Chapel Hill match but was trounced by Sears in the second. Although somewhat erratic, Gallwey has shown tremendous improvement this year, and will give Bank a tough match...
...jovial, middle-aging man named Joe Shaw. His real name is Clarence, but he is "everybody's uncle" and therefore Joe. Self-described as "an uncouth provincial boor," he tells a tale of a pair of modern Dick Whittingtons who see London as "the pallid aviary of bank notes flapping their wings in time to the cunning chimes of Big Ben." The London-lured travelers are school friends who grew up together in a town where the pottery kilns were like "giant Burgundy bottles." Their characters are fixed as schoolboys; life, they are told, is competition...