Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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David Rockefeller '36, president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, said yesterday that the Soviet leaders are "convinced that they can win the battle for men's minds without nuclear...
...president of the Students for a Democratic Society, alluded to Rockefeller's discussion of U.S. trade which bolsters the economics of other countries. He asked if the Chase Manhattan's large investments in South Africa do not serve that purpose in "a racist country." Rockefeller answered that the bank maintains three branches in South Africa, as they do in Nigeria, Liberia, Lebanon and elsewhere...
...goes the other way too: when the rich in a particular country get worried about impending trouble (for instance, before Nasser started nationalizing), they are apt to move their money to Lebanon, ready to follow in person if necessary. "Money is the world's greatest coward," explains Intra Bank Chairman Yusif Bedas...
...member of one of Brazil's oldest families, spends her days in baggy blue jeans and checkered shirt as a construction executive, bossing a $700,000 park-and-playground project bordering Guanabara Bay. Her compatriot, Sandra Cavalcanti, a Sorbonne-educated linguist, is organizing the National Housing Bank and has plans to finance several million private homes over the next 20 years. "Within three years," she vows, "the National Housing Bank will be more powerful than the Bank of Brazil...
...Heineman really doesn't give a damn whether the whole town of Fort Knox is gassed to death, or whether Goldfinger does finally break the bank, then let him wrap himself in cellophane beside a sunny window, insert a thermometer in his mouth, and play with his Rhodes Scholarship, 007 is no parody of more movies, but of the very stuff that dreams are made of. And as long as Bond is flinging electric lights into bathtubs containing villains about to plug him with his own Smith & Wesson, as long as he's kneeing Chigro henchmen in the groin...