Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Emergency Solution. Coal miners near Wilkes-Barre scurried 300 ft. to the surface when fans that dissipate dangerous fumes failed. Two window washers spent two hours and 18 minutes outside the 16th floor of the Farmers Bank Building in Wilmington, passing the time waving at office girls in the building across the street. In a darkened Philadelphia building, where a federal committee to study ways of handling emergency situations was in session, its nine members solved their own by walking down nine flights to the street...
...sense of victory. As Dayan's chief of staff, Major General Yitzhak Rabin, summed it up succinctly: "We have inflicted almost total destruction on the Egyptian army, delivered a crushing blow to the Jordanian army, captured most of the relevant parts of the Sinai Peninsula and the west bank of the Jordan, and we have destroyed almost totally the air forces of four countries." Eager young Israeli paratroopers prepared for a jump assault on Sharm el Sheikh, only to be advised that the Israeli navy had arrived first?and the Egyptians had fled. The disappointed troopers disembarked like tourists from...
Next day, as Israeli troops captured the west bank of the Suez Canal, Jordan broke ranks and accepted the U.N. cease-fire that Moscow had been desperately trying to arrange for three days to save the Arabs from total disaster. The Egyptians fought one final tank battle at Suez in a frantic attempt to open a retreat path for what was left of their 80,000-man ground force in Sinai; then they, too, agreed to the ceasefire. Syria joined the chorus only a few hours later...
After scanning the British businessman's $100 bill, the Geneva bank teller politely excused himself-and called the cops. When the Swiss police later nabbed Thomas G. W. Roe near Lausanne, they happily collected something else: $376,000 in U.S. funny money that was traced to Los Angeles and a British wheeler-dealer named Dennis Loraine. What ensued was a model of transatlantic cooperation. The Swiss sent Roe to California to testify against Loraine, who got six years on counterfeiting charges; the U.S. then returned Roe, who is now serving his own six-year sentence in a Swiss cell...
...Cochran of Kern County Land Co. after Occidental Petroleum's bitterly contested two-step offer last month to buy 23% of his asset-laden oil and farming firm. With such tactics, a group of Detroit financiers led by Donald H. Parsons, 36, has taken over five Michigan banks in the past year and forced American Metal Products into a merger with Lear-Siegler. Last week the Parsons group snared a sixth bank, the Monroe (Mich.) State Savings Bank, whose directors approved a tender offer for all its shares...