Word: bank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rifle left in the street when the killer fled belong to James Earl Ray, an escaped Missouri convict who has spent prison time for four major crimes, including armed robbery, burglary, forgery of U.S. money orders and car theft. The prints were painstakingly checked against the FBI's bank of 53,000 sets of records on wanted men; it took 13 days to find them...
Some time after President Johnson said that he would not run again, Robert McNamara, new president of the World Bank, fell into conversation with aides of Robert Kennedy. How might the former Defense Secretary help the campaign? Since he was barred from politics by the bank's charter, McNamara could not endorse Kennedy. But who could complain if he recounted Bobby's "energy and courage, compassion and wisdom" during the crises of his brother's Administration...
...praise was taped for TV plugs in the Kennedy campaign-and McNamara landed in the midst of a Pentagon-sized controversy. It was a curious gaffe on both sides. McNamara will not find it any easier now to pry money from the U.S. Congress, which provides 27% of the bank's funds. Kennedy will scarcely gain. He has always dissociated himself from the Johnson Administration and the Viet Nam war. Yet no official, save Dean Rusk, has been more closely associated with both than Robert S. McNamara...
...same time the affluent society and the afflicted society." When Nixon appeared next day, he warned that such spending would only feed inflation and thus starve the slum dweller. Nixon turned with greater vivacity to the Democrats. "McCarthy has the intellectuals, Hubert has Lyndon and Bobby has the World Bank," he quipped vis-a-vis Robert McNamara's fulsome endorsement of Kennedy. Nixon had just had a haircut, and he noted that R.F.K. had got one too. "I've known Bobby Kennedy for 14 years, and he gets a haircut about this time every year...
...preceded the coup, the Greek economy, which had been growing nearly as fast as Japan's, was headed into a recession even before the colonels seized power. Despite all sorts of pump-priming measures, such as the cancellation of $260 million in farmers' debts to the state bank, Greece's economy remains in low gear...