Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout the '60s, California rode point on reality. It discovered the Frisbee, embraced vodka and popularized credit cards and garage-door openers. The 1964 student protests at Berkeley sparked passions on campuses across the country. Detroit and Newark symbolized black rage, but Watts was the first ghetto to burn. Three years before Wounded Knee fell under siege, Indian militants fought for possession of Alcatraz. Almost every state had its draft riot, hippie commune and Black Panther spokesman-but the phenomenon that each represented surfaced first in California...
...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...
Kuhrmeier concealed this operation from his superiors in Zurich. Whenever bank auditors visited the Chiasso branch, the books that recorded Kuhrmeier's Texon dealings and other incriminating papers were spirited through a private doorway into a collaborating law firm next door. Crédit Suisse's Chiasso branch, says Bernhard Miiller, director of the Swiss Banking Commission, "was a bank within a bank...
...front-seat passengers from being hurled against the dashboard or windshield. To be fully effective, however, an air-bag system should be supplemented with a lap belt-which is not passive. Only one other passive-restraint system exists, a shoulder harness that automatically protects the driver when the door is closed...
...energies are poured into proselytizing. For each of the 196,656 people baptized last year, the Witnesses conducted 740 visits to people's homes and distributed 1,650 copies of their various books and magazines. The other side of the story is that the Witnesses suffer more back-door losses than other groups. Analysis of the sect's own reports indicates that 335,000 people have left the Witnesses since 1972. And since the End mysteriously failed to materialize in 1975, the number of new Witnesses being baptized has suddenly dropped by a third...