Word: checking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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College fund raisers have been groping for the right answer all year. While private campuses have never been so in need of alumni cash, alumni have never been so angry at protesters. By last week, enough checks had come in so that fund raisers finally knew which box to check. At most campuses, the donation trend is surprisingly upward. There are fewer gifts, but the sums are bigger than ever...
...idea originated in-where else? -California. San Diego's United States National Bank has long used four-color pictures of a local statue, and in 1965 officials of the Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco offered checks decorated with the silhouette of a stagecoach. Check writers as far away as Laos sent in requests to open new accounts at Wells Fargo, which bears the name of the old stagecoach company. Last year the San Francisco affiliate of the Bank of Tokyo started using line drawings of pine, bamboo and plum trees. In the past month, Bank of America...
...movement is expanding both pictorially and geographically. Check printers are turning out two-color "personality extension" checks that are supposed to give the account holder a choice of self-images: an American eagle for the patriot, cupids for the romantic, geometric patterns for orderly types. Manhattan's Irving Trust Co., Detroit's Bank of the Commonwealth and about 300 other banks now offer two-color checks decorated with hearts, psychedelic designs and even the peace symbol...
...arty checks help bankers lure customers from each other-at the customers' expense; banks generally charge a penny a check extra. Some picture checks may invite forgery, since a signature could get lost amid the busy patterns. That consideration has been overpowered, however, by the new checks' appeal to women, who are doing an increasing share of family banking, and to many people who hunger for any touch of individuality in the everyday things that they...
...their consternation, the Japanese have discovered that auto safety is not only a U.S. issue. A check by the New York Times with the U.S. National Highway Safety Bureau disclosed last month that the Japanese Big Two-Toyota and Nissan-had been secretly recalling defective cars sold in the U.S. Alarmed, the Japanese Diet demanded that all twelve Japanese automakers reveal the extent of engineering flaws. Public dismay grew as both the press and the national police began investigating accidents that could have been caused by defective cars...