Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wide application, said Dr. Kenneth Sell, organ transplantation will have to depend on organ banks, similar to the tissue bank he now maintains for the U.S. Navy at Bethesda, Md. So far, no one has devised a way to freeze a whole organ and get it to work after thawing it out. But another visionary suggestion is for a "living bank," in which organs from human cadavers might be implanted in baboons and stored in the animals until needed for transplants...
Foote is part of advertising folklore. Alabama-born, he was a bank teller and a clerk before he traveled to San Francisco for his first ad job in 1931 as a researcher with a small agency. By 1938, he was in the big time. As a creative man with Albert Lasker's Lord & Thomas agency, Foote handled the American Tobacco Co. account, led the group-think that produced such slogans as "Lucky Strike Green Has Gone to War." He was one of the few who got along with irascible Cigarette Magnate George Washington Hill, as a result rose...
...American grants by other industrial countries. According to the President, America would give India as much wheat as Canada, Australia, and Russia together contributed, up to three million tons. Second, the President weakly insisted that we "redouble our efforts" to finance development schemes through neutral institutions like the World Bank and the African Development Bank...
...with his brand of multilateralism. By requiring matched grants, the United States makes developing countries suffer for the stinginess or financial slumps of countries like France, Germany, or Russia. Though the United States wants to channel aid through international institutions, neither the President nor Congress will tolerate the World Bank's rule that it will not administer funds that are tagged for specific countries. And the African Development Bank is presently too inexperienced and understaffed to carry out major investment programs...
...added $400 million in development loans yet still managed to keep aid appropriations at last year's level--$3.2 billion. The President shifted payments to Laos, Thailand and NATO to the military budget; and held out loans totalling more than $3 million to international organizations like the Asian Development Bank until he could judge more closely the temper of Congress. At the same time Johnson sought to make all unavoidable aid cuts before the bill reached the House floor. As aid specialist William S. Gaud crowed enthusiastically, this is a "tight . . . bikini-type budget...