Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER AND OTHER STORIES, by Joao Guimaraes Rosa. The mystical core of a significant Brazilian writer is revealed in this collection of sto ries, published posthumously...
...clamped on the black beret worn by U.S. Navymen in Viet Nam, stepped aboard PBR (Patrol Boat River) 756 and headed for a rendezvous with the fully loaded U.S. tanker Kalydon. So did the Viet Cong. Three hours later, the battle exploded. From the Long Tau's east bank, ambushers fired five Communist-made B40 rockets at the tanker. All five missed, and Monzingo's two-boat force foamed toward the attackers, blasting away with M-60 machine guns and M-79 grenade launchers. Within minutes, Vietnamese Regional Force troopers moved inland to catch the fleeing foe. That...
...Rhodesian with the pseudonym of "Bill Brown." Mr. Martin's head was never found, McGuire says, so "the missionaries buried what they could find of him." "Bill Brown" reportedly had a wife and family in Rhodesia, who are vainly attempting to collect the money he deposited in a bank under his real name, for they have no proof that he is dead. "No death certificate, no anything...
Last month Crocker-Citizens National Bank opened a 42-story headquarters and office building that displaces nearby Union Bank headquarters, completed last year, as the city's tallest structure. Crocker-Citizens' skyscraping title, however, should be short lived. The Bank of America and Atlantic Richfield Co. have just announced plans for a $140 million office and shopping-center complex that will be 47 ft. higher. The project's twin, 52-story towers will rise 667 ft. above a block-square landscaped mall. "We've needed a downtown since World War II," says Louis B. Lundborg...
Sixteen new office skyscrapers have one up so far, including the 26-story City National Bank building and Occidental Life Insurance's elegant 32-story center, to which the company is currently adding an annex. The scramble for sites has lifted land prices from $20 per sq. ft. five years ago to as much as $100 today, but businessmen seem undeterred. "The more there is, the more will happen," predicts Architect William L. Pereira. Honolulu's Dillingham Corp. plans a 1,000-room hotel, and the Broadway-Hale department-store chain is snapping up a site...