Word: bonde
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Deals East & West. Combining the functions of commercial and investment bankers in the U.S., Reyre last year helped to float half of France's stock issues and 90% of its bond issues. Through branches and subsidiaries in New York, London, Geneva, Brussels, Amsterdam, Milan and Madrid, he shared the underwriting of 50 international securities issues. He helped Poland and Czechoslovakia to finance machinery buying in the West, formed a joint European subsidiary with the U.S.'s Bank of America, backed Monaco's Prince Rainier in his battle with Greek Shipowner Aristotle Onassis...
After Napoleon. Reyre, a career banker who took charge of Paribas in 1948, has so far multiplied its assets tenfold, to $1 billion. A constant innovator, he was the first French banker to bring out convertible bond issues, invest in the Sahara oil boom, and create an open-end investment fund to lure small investors into the French stock market...
...Mountain. In his 18 months in office, Gardner has taken hold of HEW with markedly greater determination and sureness than any of his five predecessors. The effect is being felt not only around the capital, but out in the regions as well. Jim Bond, a multimillionaire Dallas businessman who, atypically, is HEW's regional director for a five-state Southwest area (and who annually donates more to charity than he makes at his $22,500-a-year job), concedes that in the past, "I haven't always been as enthusiastic as I should have. But John Gardner...
Philosophical Bond. Those were mild words indeed from a man who first gained national attention three years ago by brandishing a pistol and a pickax handle in the face of Negroes seeking to eat in his Pickrick restaurant-and then closed it rather than serve them...
Among ten legislators abstaining from the vote on Maddox was Julian Bond, 26, the bright, outspoken Negro who finally gained his seat in the State House of Representatives after twice being deprived of it because of his public advocacy of draft-card burning. The U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that Bond must be seated and, along with ten other Negroes, he took his place in the Georgia legislature. "I don't think," philosophized Bond, "most members of the house care at this point whether I'm here or not-and that's the attitude I want them...