Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Juliette Greco commit suicide? It seemed incredible to Parisians, as rumors spread that existentialism's chanteuse-muse had tried to exist no more by swallowing a "massive overdose" of barbiturates. By the time Juliette got back to her Left Bank town house from the Ambroise-Paré Clinic, reporters and photographers were jamming the street outside. "I am against suicide," she snapped, "and against pharmacists." Juliette's explanation: she'd just toppled over after taking two sleeping pills and a tranquilizer to try to relax...
...Negro network of some 40 radio stations. To his surprise Evans found that more whites than Negroes were listening to some of the stations. That convinced him to play the Negro angle in print. He sold the Negro-supplement idea to newspaper publishers, got financing from the First National Bank of Chicago, and recruited a biracial board that includes Sausage Manufacturer Henry G Parks Jr., Labor Mediator Theodore W. Kheel, and former CBS-TV Network President Louis G. Cowan...
...boomy feeling. Though most economists agree that inflation is no serious threat to the economy right now, Wall Streeters believe that they have begun to sniff a hint of it in the air. Every warning about its dangers-such as the current statement by the New York Federal Reserve Bank that the economy "is clearly vulnerable to inflationary pressures"-seems only to strengthen the scent. Last week this "inflation syndrome," plus some good news about the economy, combined to spur the stock market to its second big advance in as many weeks...
Partly because of rising buyer interest and partly because bank loans are becoming harder to obtain and the bond market is weak, many firms are planning to float new stock issues in the fall. They have been waiting since spring for the right time to bring their issues to market, feel that the current advance provides the proper opportunity. The market showed signs of profit-taking at week's end, may yet have some rocky sessions ahead. Many analysts are predicting, nonetheless, that it will soon break through to a new peak. Whatever the fall may bring, the market...
...today's new Nigeria, businessmen are more likely to succeed by producing new goods or services. Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony, 59, known as "The Black Englishman" for his impeccable manners and imperturbable air, began by importing cuckoo clocks and marble statues. He now controls or owns part of ten companies, including a tanker fleet and a charter airline. Emmanuel Akwiwu, 43, earned law degrees at Cambridge; returning home just as Nigeria's oil boom began he organized a company that now has 70 vehicles, hauls oil rigs and supplies for British Petroleum Ltd. Chief Shafi Lawal...