Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dramatic innovation as director of the Théâtre de France, giving world premières of works by such playwrights as Beckett, lonesco and Genet. Last week Barrault interrupted rehearsals at his company's permanent home, the Odéon Theater on Paris' Left Bank, to announce that he had been dismissed as its director. The coup de grâce was administered in a curt letter from his old friend, André Malraux, France's Minister of Culture, who had asked Barrault to take over the theater nine years...
...time White House summer intern, GRAMCO President and Founder Keith Barish, 25. Even before he left the University of Miami after his junior year in 1965, Barish had accumulated a small fortune with various enterprises, including a housing project in Mexico; he had also founded Manufacturer's National Bank of Hialeah (assets: $10 million) and become a director of Hamilton Life Insurance Co. Though his first love was politics ("I thought the greatest thing in the world would be to be a U.S. Congressman"), Barish decided to concentrate first on making money. He took aim at a hitherto overlooked...
State of Exception. Though they have posed a nuisance problem to police for years, Basque terrorists began striking in earnest only last spring. Since April, they have exploded dozens of plastic bombs, set fire to one mayor's home and financed their movement with the proceeds of five bank robberies. Then in early August, a bearded gunman staked out the home of Meliton Manzanas Gonzales, 58, the tough police chief of Spain's Basque region and an unpopular representative of General Francisco Franco. When Manzanas ar rived home from work, the assailant gunned him down from ambush with...
Beyond Conventions. Merrill Lynch is fond of noting that it imposes on its employees a set of ethics that goes well beyond the requirements of law or the conventions of Wall Street. For example, no employee is allowed to obtain a bank loan by using securities as collateral. Unless he is about to retire, no officer is permitted to become a director of another company. Alone among big brokers, Merrill Lynch has refused to promote the sale of mutual-fund shares, reasoning that such dealings could lead to a conflict of interest in serving its big and little customers...
...that it was even being mentioned was a measure of the Democrats' uneasy mood as they assembled in Chicago. Said McCarthy Aide Richard Goodwin: "This is the convention of the lemmings. Everybody is swimming out to sea, screaming at each other-and Richard Nixon is sitting on the bank laughing...