Word: bank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thoughts about whether he should take the raise. His position is already precarious with many of his men. He managed to win re-election as president by only a narrow margin last December, though even a narrow win was obviously enough to give him a big welcome at the bank...
Armored Car. The night before De Gaulle was to inspect the Ecole Militaire on the Left Bank near the Eiffel Tower, Paris gendarmes swarmed over the ground, searching the buildings for weapons and interrogating officer students and teachers. De Gaulle showed up next day on schedule, but (in a concession to danger rare for him) cooped up inside an armored Citroën limousine with bulletproof windows. According to the official story from Sûieté headquarters on the Rue des Saus-saies, police had discovered a plot on a civilian's tip, in the nick of time...
...plan eight acres of the Charles River would be filled in to make room for the Turnpike Extension. Callahan has met stiff opposition from Cambridge groups which fear that Magazine Beach, a riverfront recreational area near MIT will be submerged to compensate for the fill-in on the opposite bank...
...When the Philippine Republic decided to try to raise its gross national product by $860 million in five years, the World Bank and the U.S. Agency for International Development both pledged funds to form a private development corporation to help encourage new businesses. The problem was finding an able and independent boss who would be acceptable to government reformers, the Philippine business community, and overseas bankers. The man was finally found, and last week Francisco Ortigas Jr., 56, new president-treasurer of the Development Corporation of the Philippines, flew off to Washington to arrange $22 million in loans. Roman Catholic...
...vast majority of CRIMSON editors became neither journalists nor professors. Two (JFK and FDR) became President. F.A.O. Schwarz '24 manufactures toys, David Rockefeller '36 runs a bank, Cleveland Amory '39 is a proper Bostonian, Robert F. Bradford '23 served as Governor of. Massachusetts, and Laurence D. Savadove '53 writes novels...