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Boston Garden never looked better. Every seat in the house was filled and discs bearing the names and retired numbers of Eddie Shore, Dit Clapper, Milt Schmidt and Lionel Hitchman hung in the rafters among the numerous Bruin and Celtic championship banners. Boston would play the Soviet Wings in a lopsided exhibition game later that evening, but Tuesday night belonged to Bobby...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Orr: Ending at the Beginning | 1/12/1979 | See Source »

...translation is of more than casual interest to the Deutsche Bank of Frankfurt, which in terms of assets (about $50 billion) ranks fourth in the world, after San Francisco's Bank of America, New York's Citibank and France's Caisse Nationale de Crēdit Agricole. The bank has approached the W.T.C.'s owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: High Interest | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...think that my first statements were not correctly interpreted. I used an Afrikaans expression [Dit laat my koud] which meant that I was not emotionally involved, the same as if you would say to me that your aunt died yesterday. I would simply say, "Well, I'm sorry." The direct translation into English sounds a little bit callous, but I only meant to say that I was neutral. I feel sorry for any person's death. But you understand, I'm not emotionally involved; I was not a particular supporter of Mr. Biko. I knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: I Must Keep This Country Safe | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

Last March, Crédit Suisse belatedly decided to dispatch a special team, of investigators to Chiasso. What they found, as Chairman Aeppli delicately described it later, was that "contacts between the Chiasso branch and Texon ... were of a completely different nature than we had thought." Kuhrmeier and two assistants were arrested, along with three lawyers from next door. Crédit Suisse's then president Heinz Wuffli resigned, along with two other top company officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Less Go-Go in Switzerland | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...management at Crédit Suisse chose to overlook some astonishingly clear signals that all was not well at their Chiasso branch. In January 1976, for example, Philippe de Weck, chairman of the Union Bank of Switzerland, showed Crédit Suisse a copy of a bank guarantee, improperly issued on fiduciary deposits, that had been channeled to Texon. Questioned about the violation, Kuhrmeier explained it away by saying, "It was a special favor that had to be done for a friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Less Go-Go in Switzerland | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

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