Word: lane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year Granatelli came tantalizingly close with his revolutionary, turbine-powered STP Special, driven by Parnelli Jones, which missed winning only because a $6 ball bearing failed with eight miles to go. This May 30, it will take an awful lot of broken bearings to keep Granatelli out of victory lane. He will enter four turbine cars in what promises to be the fastest Indy in history...
...Long and his colleagues were driving on R Street, four blocks from the embassy. They were in the right lane of a two-lane, one-way street. "Suddenly," Long recalled, "a truck next to us rammed into us by swerving into our lane while we were going about 5 miles an hour." The Vietnamese students pleaded that they had an urgent appointment, Long said, while the truck driver insisted on a complete exchange of papers and calling a policeman. Half an hour later, they finally arrived at the embassy. It was 10:15. They were greeted by Nguyen Ngoc Bich...
Loafers & Loud Coats. Stocky (5 ft. 9 in., 170 lbs.) and balding, Lane wears a puckish smile fixed below his wire-rimmed spectacles. Instead of banker's grey, he prefers loafers and loud sport coats; he has made a trademark out of ties, in a variety of colors, bearing the inscription: "It's a wonderful world...
...eccentricities, Lane is a third-generation banker whose father was Citizens & Southern's longtime president. Lane himself joined the bank as a clerk after his graduation from Yale in 1934, soon found that the Depression had left Atlanta's banking community "old and tired." Churning with fresh ideas, he rose quickly through the ranks, becoming a first vice president in 1939. When Lane, still only 34, moved up to president in 1946 (his father had died the year before), he took over a bank that was lagging far behind Atlanta's First National, the city...
Since then, C & S has grown to be almost twice the size of First National, as Lane increased its branches from 13 to 61 while steadily expanding its services. C & S was a pioneer in converting to data processing and introducing freight-bill payment services, under which the bank pays the shipping bills of its customers directly out of their accounts. C & S also moved headlong into travel services, now ranks as one of the South's largest travel agencies. One of the first major banks to issue its own credit card, C & S was first to offer...