Word: banke
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...past, not from a Moscow spokesman but from a distinguished British scientist. Closemouthed Soviet scientists announced only that a space craft called Zond 5 had been launched into deep space from a parking orbit around the earth. But after Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell trained his 250-ft. Jodrell Bank radio telescope on the receding craft and analyzed its signals, he told the world exactly what the Russians were trying to do. Zond's mission, he stated, was to fly around the moon and return for a safe landing on earth, a feat never before accomplished...
...previous denial, the Soviets reported that Zond 5 had indeed flown around the moon. It carried out its "program of research in outer space," they said, and was continuing on its flight. Then Lovell added a postscript: the Soviet news agency Tass, he told reporters, had actually called Jodrell Bank to ask what was happening to the spacecraft...
Toward week's end, just as Lovell predicted, Jodrell Bank's great telescope tracked the craft back to within 50,000 miles of the earth; then it was lost below the horizon. When Zond failed to reappear over the opposite horizon, Lovell announced that the Russians had probably brought it down in a recovery attempt. Then, after hours of silence that led many scientists to believe that the spacecraft had not survived its plunge into the earth's atmosphere, Moscow made a dramatic announcement: Zond had splashed down "in a pre-set area of the Indian Ocean...
Confounding the Forecasters. The economy's summer performance has indeed surprised almost everybody. "The consumer has confounded the forecasters by spending as much money after the tax increase as before," says Leif Olsen, senior vice president and economist of Manhattan's First National City Bank. That buying spree has been especially notable in autos, appliances and clothing. Retail sales not only jumped 3% in July to a record $29 billion, but climbed a bit more during August. Early figures for September indicated that shoppers were spending 9% more in the stores than they were a year earlier...
...ordinary group. By one awed (and decidedly exaggerated) estimate, they commanded 90% of the free world's capital. The occasion: a five-day traveling party to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Manhattan-based Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., the largest, and by far the oldest U.S. private bank...