Word: bank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...imaginative war-college instructor to baffle his student officers. In fact, the unsettling task was just what confronted the Israeli armed forces last June when they assaulted Syria's Golan Heights. But after Israel's swift and decisive campaigns in the Sinai and on the west bank, the bitter, bloody Battle of Golan Heights seemed almost anticlimactic. It got scant attention in news reports already concentrating on Israel's overall victory. Now, as military censors release the first detailed accounts of the fight for those rugged hilltops, the battle can be recognized as a classic...
That first bold assault began at 11:30 on the morning of June 9. Short hours after tanks and troopers raced north from their victory on the west bank of the Jordan, an Israeli armored brigade was ready to lash out from a point just north of the kibbutz of Kfar Szold (see map) and grind up into the forbidding Syrian hills. So tortuous was the terrain that the lead battalion of 35 Sherman tanks was forced to snake up the cliffside in single file. Despite heavy Israeli air and artillery strikes on the Syrian gun emplacements, Arab...
...savings spurt began late last year, after banks and savings and loan associations raised the interest rates to com pete with the soaring rates offered by the bond market. Recently, consumers have been especially anxious to rebuild accounts shrunken during 1966 in anticipation of a tax increase and out of economy jitters. "The consumer and his family have been expecting the worst," says Chase Manhattan Bank Vice President John Deaver. "It takes them a while to get used to the idea that things are getting better...
...some ways, new-found thrift has helped the economy. For example, the cash piled up in savings accounts has expanded the supply of mortgage money, which in turn has helped revive the home-building industry. On the other hand, the money in the bank has held retail sales and auto purchases to a relatively sluggish pace...
...Anglo-Irish in their 18th century heyday; fortunately, they escaped disfiguration during the 19th century industrial revolution that blighted England's cities but bypassed Ireland, in part because of its disastrous famines, in part because of its own preoccupation with its more romantic national affairs. The Bank of Ireland (once the Irish Parliament), the Four Courts, the Rotunda, Leinster House (where the Parliament now sits) are monuments to a gracious age. Even the railway stations, when at last the railway came, are beautiful. Dublin, too, has some horrendous slums, but from them emerge some of the most beautiful...