Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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High Taste. No details of the separation agreement were released, but it is rumored that Henry gave Anne their big summer home in Southampton, plus a huge cash settlement...
...complains one Washington, D.C., police inspector. "They will hide their purses under their desks, in typewriter wells and desk drawers. These are the first places a professional office thief looks." A female Washington employee of Air France was robbed twice in one day. Purses, wallets, postage stamps and petty cash are fair game, with office machines and TV sets running a bulky second. Occasionally, of course, the theft is an inside job, though most experts believe that the kleptomaniac junior exec and the light-fingered charwoman (a much-maligned breed) are the exceptions. Guido Mattei, Chicago manager of the William...
...cameras scanning entrances and exits, and the new Pan Am building will soon have 15. Security measures elsewhere include everything from platoons of uniformed guards and plainclothes detectives to hidden still cameras, electric-eye alarm systems, fluorescent dusting powder (guilty fingers glow under fluorescent lamps after dipping into petty cash), identification passes, and stiff regulations about signing in and out during off-hours...
Shared Burden. Norman Moonbloom is "New York's most educated rent collector," with degrees from Wisconsin, McGill, Mexico and Bowdoin. His heart, if anywhere, is in his boots as he trudges each week through the Lower East Side and Yorkville to collect rent in cash and to issue promises that some thing (the toilet, the walls, the fusebox, or whatever) will be fixed. It never...
Silly woman. She depends on the dependence of an undependable dependent. One day the rat comes home rich, and her world collapses. He no longer needs her consolation, he no longer needs her cash. He is free, a man. She has nothing but herself, an emptiness that only he can fill. He tries to. He buys her expensive dresses; she refuses to accept them. He clears away the mortgage; she says she hates the house. He hands her a ticket to Europe; she swears she will not go. What does she want? Her sister thinks she knows: "You want...