Word: bank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most museums now recognize photography as art, many still treat photographers like skeletons in closets. They are very rarely exhibited permanently, but are brought out for short stands, and then shelved again. One gets the feeling that a museum exhibits a photographer in the same spirit in which a bank hires a Negro: to prove its liberalism...
When Mosconi stepped to the table, he had the game to go with the gamesmanship. Playing four to six shots ahead, he carefully avoided dangerous combinations and bank shots. Those he left to Lauri-and a postgame exhibition in which he showed some fancy stuff, including a six-ball combination, one ball for each pocket. During the competition itself, he peppered the pockets with wonderfully simple-looking straight shots, so rapidly that he was literally trotting around the table. With runs of 79 and 80, Mosconi won by 148 balls...
Everyone wanted something as the world's money managers gathered in Washington last week for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund. African financial chiefs approached the IMF with requests for more support. Asian delegates asked the U.S. Government to underwrite the proposed Asian development bank. Among the 2,000 moneymen from 103 nations who crowded into the Sheraton Park Hotel, such bankers as the U.S.'s David Rockefeller and Robert Roosa, Britain's Viscount Harcourt and Italy's Ettore Lolli swapped shop talk and negotiated private deals...
...rale de Belgique, a supercombine that controls a fourth of Belgium's industry and half of the Congo's, is growing mightier still. Last week it announced that its Banque de la Société Générale, by far the largest bank in Belgium, would gobble up two other banks, the Banque d'Anvers and the Société Belge de Banque. The combine's banking subsidiary will thereby increase its deposits by nearly 20% to more than $2 billion...
...merger is that it will link la Générale with another Belgian giant: the Solvay chemical empire, one of the world's biggest family-owned firms. Solvay has long held a controlling interest in the Société Belge de Banque; but the bank's limited deposits of $175 million have proved increasingly inadequate for Solvay's growing needs. Solvay can now tap the vast resources of the banks with which it is merging, and la Générale will strengthen its connection with one of the world's most...