Word: drews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loss of tourist business as a result of the Arab-Israeli war, got a welcome lift on the home front last week. After a 15-month shutdown in the wake of the biggest banking scandal in Lebanese history, Intra Bank reopened its doors for business. The reopening quickly drew a crowd so large that police had to be called to control it. Not surprisingly, the throng consisted mainly of Intra Bank customers anxious to get their savings out rather than to put more Lebanese pounds...
...intense kind has been made. As the Malmö train connects with the Berlin train, it is thought that the teeth have been stolen by a Gestapo agent. Later still. Lord Davies' teeth have been found." All, however, was not low jinks in high diplomacy. Churchill drew Macmillan closer to him, and the fact that both men had American mothers made it seem right that Macmillan would work better than most others in the vital area of Anglo-American cooperation. In this field, Macmillan won many of the battles. He grasped the essential point that an American commander...
...surging land boom. Their favorite stunt was to buy residential land around Islip, rezone it for business, and then sell at a handsome profit. It was a coordinated effort. In one instance, the paper discovered, Town Attorney Walter Con-Ion, who was later appointed a state tax commissioner, drew up a resolution relaxing zoning restrictions on land he had bought in partnership with a Long Island hoodlum. Town Councilman Donald Kuss then introduced the resolution before the town board and pushed it through. Conlon's company made a $64,000 profit; Kuss was paid $9,000 for his services...
...cover story, written in New York by Spencer Davidson, drew heavily on reports filed from financial world capitals, where TIME'S reporters keep constant tab on economic developments. A principal pivot was Correspondent Robert Ball, who is based in Zurich but whose beat is business anywhere in Europe. The two-page study of "The Nervous Year" in U.S. business that supplements the cover story was written by Gurney Breckenfeld. Reporters and correspondents across the country tapped their business sources for that story, with an important part of the reporting being done by the Washington Bureau's Juan Cameron...
Since 1958, Robert Coles, a research psychiatrist at Harvard, has studied the reactions of both blacks and whites who were involved in the desegregation of Southern schools. His findings are compelling evidence of the psychological damage that can be caused by virulent racism. A small Negro girl, Coles notes, drew pictures of white people as larger and more lifelike than Negroes; when she drew Negroes, their bodies were disjointed. A white boy depicted Negroes as more animal than human. By the time they are three years old, Coles says, black children are already learning the values and fears...