Word: bank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-American channels, and screechingly publicized.*Shriver is convinced that the subsequent success of the Peace Corps has been such that there will be no repetition of that incident. "It won't happen again -not like that," he says. "We've got some money in the bank...
...ager with Jeb Stuart in the Confederate cavalry. Shriver was reared in Maryland, a devout Catholic and hard-core Democrat. There was a fair amount of money from the family grain mill, built in Union Mills, Md., in 1797, and from a canning business. The son of a Baltimore bank vice president, Sargent prepped at Canterbury School, New Milford, Conn., went on to Yale, graduating cum laude in 1938, got his law degree three years later. While he was still in school, his father went broke during the Depression, and Shriver recalls: "I've always sent money home...
...attache but after 1957 as chief of the air section in the Swedish Ministry of Defense, and since 1961 as a Foreign Ministry consultant. Though he drew only $9,000 annual pay, he lived in a $40,000 house in Stockholm's exclusive Djursholm district, among bank directors and diplomats, entertained frequently. Money was a motive (he may have earned as much as $100,000 for his work), but one acquaintance said: "He must have enjoyed the dangerous game and thought he was intellectually better than others...
...editor sits at his console, staring at a whole bank of television-type screens. With the flick of a switch he can call up the image of all the elements of his newspapers-wire service copy, a reporter's typescript, carefully catalogued material from the morgue. Wielding a tiny electronic stylus instead of a pencil, he changes words, makes erasures, shifts paragraphs. Every move, every judgment is recorded in the console's electronic memory. The job done, the editor presses a button and the corrected copy jumps into view, set and spaced just as it will appear...
Like many of Germany's most powerful younger men, Beitz began his postwar climb by working for the Western Allies. Son of a small-time bank clerk, Beitz in 1946 sold the British occupiers on hiring him as chief insurance supervisor in their zone-though he knew nothing about insurance-and went from there to the presidency of a small insurance company that he built into Germany's third biggest...