Word: crediters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sometimes Kudashkin asked for "background investigations" on people living on Long Island, and Thompson would "pose as an insurance man and question a man's neighbors and credit agents and so forth." Thompson met Kudashkin dozens of times-sitting in Thompson's oil truck in parks, beneath water towers, in railroad parking lots. Whatever Thompson's information was worth to Kudashkin, it wasn't worth much to Thompson. "I never even made my gas money," said Thompson...
...Committee soon discovered that, despite the bull slung at application interviews, few sophomores had really selected a research topic, that they needed a well-ordered and rigorous introduction to the Social Sciences. Converted several years ago into a full course for credit, sophomore tutorial has evolved into such an introduction, edging each year further away from an intellectual history approach toward a methodology approach...
...much of it (fully one-fifth of their $16.6 billion in deposits comes from foreigners) that when their international clientele decided to lighten its sterling holdings, the banks became heavily though unhappily involved in the run on the pound. The Swiss themselves contributed $80 million to the $3 billion credit that stopped that run; but some disgruntled Britons still feel their economy has been-bent to the will of a clique of Swiss financiers. Labor Party leaders sneeringly called them "the gnomes of Zurich...
...avoid social ostentation, and bury their money-two floors below ground level in vaults that are built to withstand even nuclear at tack. Nearly half the deposits are in the vaults of five banks along Zurich's Bahnhofstrasse. In addition to the Union Bank, they are the Swiss Credit Bank, the Swiss Bank Corp., and-much smaller-the Swiss Popular Bank...
Died. Adolf Scharf, 74, President of Austria since 1957, a Viennese Socialist who, as vice chancellor during the postwar years, shares credit with the late Chancellor Julius Raab for Austria's economic recovery and the 1955 departure of Russian occupation troops, later, as President, quelled a series of rebellions within his Socialist party, thus keeping alive the government's 19-year-old Socialist-Conservative coalition; of liver cancer; in Vienna...