Word: bank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still Tinkering. De Gaulle's government diminished the dizzying zeros by merely shifting the decimal point two places to the left. Thus a bank note that read 1,000 was worth only ten "New Francs." There were lots of mixups. Politicians cunningly mentioned old francs when telling constituents how much the government was spending on their welfare, and then shifted to New Francs when discussing taxes...
...generals and politicians-Voltaire last year replaced Richelieu on the 10-franc note, and Racine replaced Henri IV on the 50. But Frenchmen are now complaining that the new 100-franc Corneille note is confusingly similar to the 500 note, which shows Molière. Nonsense, replied a harassed bank spokesman, Molière's curls are much fuller than Corneille...
They will claim that the underpasses--to be built at River St., Western Ave., and Boylston St.--Will not solve the problem of traffic of congestion on Memorial Drive and will only destroy valuable open areas of the Charles River bank...
Among cash-rich oil companies, realty investment has become a major sideline. In partnership with Contractor Del Webb, Houston's Humble Oil is erecting a satellite city next to the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center (for which Humble cannily donated the land). Gulf Oil guaranteed a $20 million bank loan to the developer of the new town of Reston, outside Washington, in exchange for gas-station sites, and made a similar deal with another builder near San Francisco. Union Oil owns a 45% interest in a firm planning a big community in Simi Valley near Los Angeles...
...much further the resemblance can be carried, because P. S. Wilkinson is tedious, self-pitying, unsufferably sensitive, and a prig. He did not enjoy his Army service in Korea. He also does not enjoy the company of his father, memories of school, sex, lack of sex, working in a bank, or much else. Other characters, some of whom might have been interesting, are perceived only by a kind of melancholic sonar: Wilkinson sends out waves of gloom that bounce off the other people in the book and return to him as angst amplified...