Word: defunction
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...Vegas. Jim Saxon, who supervises the 4,700 U.S. national banks, charged as a starter that underworld activity, gambling and phony securities were behind the recent failure of chartered national banks in California, Colorado and Texas. He accused Don C. Silverthorne, president of the defunct San Francisco National Bank ($41 million in assets), of "gross misconduct and gross deception," said that he had exacted huge fees from some borrowers and then spent part of the money gambling in Las Vegas. "Untrue-and he knows it," replied Silverthorne, who gets his chance to testify this week...
...library. The William Scott Ferguson Prize of books goes to the writer of the outstanding History essay written in sophomore tutorial. The Dante prize gives $100 to a graduate student writing on the life or work of Dante. But the rewards of practical labor are meager. The now-defunct Hon. Robert Treat Paine Prize rewarded the best original investigation plus "practical conclusions" of some form of charity work. However, an essay on "The Special Phase of the Labor Question" could be substituted for first-hand investigation. The radicalism of E. M. Forster's reformers was soothed by John Ruskin...
...Martin Luther King sent a telegram yesterday to H. Reed Ellis '65, president of the now defunct HCUA, urging response "to the vicious maltreatment of defenseless citizens of Alabama...
...feels a smidgen of guilt. Billy's prim fiancee (Stefanie Powers) takes it rather hard too. She arrives from Detroit in very low spirits, but soon slips into something more comfortable, persuaded by Cliff that thinking up answers for a lively lover easily beats asking questions about a defunct beau...
...radio station, which consists of four turntables, a 50-watt transmitter, a main control panel, lots of old 78's and perhaps a tape recorder, was purchased from WHBS, the Business School's now-defunct venture into broadcasting...