Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some prefer regular accounts, but for the really nervous there is nothing quite as safe as a coded number account, since nobody but a Swiss bank's director and one or two top officers ever learns the identity of its owner. So stringent are the rules protecting depositors-bankers who violate them risk 20,000-franc fines ($4,577 ) and six months in jail-that relatives of Iraq's King Feisal could not touch his account after his assassination, and Argentina's deposed Dictator Juan Peron is still unable to get at the $60 million fortune reportedly...
...bringing the best wheat and cotton crop in a decade. Says an embittered Nasser supporter: "Rain last year would have saved Nasser, and drought this year would have brought him back." Gone with the drought is the Nasser-era police state whose oppression created the "Syrian twitch"-a quick, nervous glance over the shoulder. Although Syrian prisons hold fewer than 500 "subversives"-many of them saboteurs sent in by Nasser-Syrians can no longer be jailed for more than 48 hours without formal arraignment. A degree of press freedom has been granted, and the politics-loving Syrians are now entertained...
...last week. Part of it came from the spate of new rumors that Moscow will soon sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany, a move that would bring new efforts to shut off West Berliners' few remaining access routes to the West. West Berliners were also nervous at the chance that hordes of restive East Germans might choose the Wall's anniversary as an occasion for a mass escape attempt through the 95 miles of concrete, barbed wire and death strips that surround the western half of the city...
...three-year low, down 13% since Blue Monday alone, as investors were preoccupied by tarnish on the German miracle-inflation, slackening production and softening profits. Contributing to the German unease is the financial fry of Millionaire Shipbuilder Willy Schlieker (TIME, Aug. 3), whose unexpected tumble set off nervous speculation that more than a few other German postwar "wonder boys" might also be overextended and undercapitalized. Last week a Schlieker spokesman said glumly, "Bankruptcy proceedings have just been opened," involving all 23 Schlieker companies...
...master's death and inaugurated the trapeze line), had been out of the running for a while. Drafted into the French army for two years, he returned to Dior to find Designer Marc Bohan in his place. Paris divided on the issue, and St. Laurent had a nervous breakdown. Squaring his narrow shoulders, St. Laurent opened his own house last season to mixed notices. But this year, bravos came in salvos from the gilt chairs; the snouts of television cameras poked through tall, flowering plants like machine guns, recording the moment of triumph for a TV special...