Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appeared in Greece. Newspapers commented on it, and the afternoon daily Messimvreni took Greeks to task for not helping "this young man of darkness" in his "battle against his destiny." Soon Georgakakis had his choice of several good positions. U.S.-educated Professor Adam Pepelasis, deputy governor of the Agrarian Bank of Greece, told TIME Reporter Mario Modiano: "I read your story and I felt a feeling of shame. It showed how a blind man can look inside his soul and discover the meaning of life-truth...
...raise the new revenues, Reagan proposed a 5% sales tax (up from 4%), increases in liquor taxes from $1.50 per gallon to $2.25, in cigarette taxes from 3? to 6½?, in personal income tax rates from a maximum of 7% to 10%, and in bank and corporate profits from a maximum of 9.5% to 10.5%. Actually, the new taxes were necessary mainly because the state was committed by former Governor Pat Brown to programs costing far more than current taxes are bringing in. If approved by the legislature, they will become effective July 1, and under the California constitution...
Their Left Bank apartment was the living room of the Lost Generation. Through it passed every star in the artistic firmament between the two World Wars-Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Picasso and Matisse, T. S. Eliot and Sherwood Anderson, Ford Madox Ford and Carl Van Vechten. Three generations of young writers came for guidance to the Paris salon of Gertrude Stein and her lifelong companion, Alice B. Toklas. Novelists, composers, poets, painters and playwrights sipped the fragrant colorless liqueurs of the two U.S.-born hostesses (which they made themselves from plums and raspberries), dined on such Toklas specialties as Bass...
...Picasso drawings that Gertrude had willed her. She became embroiled with Stein's relatives in a court battle over the rights to 28 Picasso paintings in the collection that Stein had left her in trust. The fabulous collection from the age of cubism, which was consigned to a bank vault, will now go to Stein's relatives...
...last six Presidents. Last week, for a change, Argentina's polo-playing Strongman Juan Carlos Onganía suddenly made things hot for the confederation. In rapid succession, he temporarily dissolved the country's six largest labor unions, representing more than 625,000 workers, froze the bank accounts of 100 union leaders, and enacted a new law empowering the government to draft any male or female over 14 years into a "civilian defense corps." The law thus puts every union troublemaker within quick, easy reach...