Word: orions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bank combinations are taking a variety of new forms, cutting across rivalries as well as boundaries. Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale, for instance, joined with National Westminster, Chase Manhattan and the Royal Bank of Canada to start "Orion." The constellation is divided into three parts: a commercial bank, a merchant bank, and a marketing wing that will steer customers of the four shareholding banks to Orion. Another new banking combine is London Multinational, which is backed by Baring Brothers, New York's Chemical Bank, Credit Suisse, and Chicago's Northern Trust. Still another grouping, called Atlantic International, brings together, among...
...Aboard. The multinational trend has built up a momentum of its own. Says Dr. Heinz Sippel, a Westdeutsche Landesbank representative at Orion: "There were a number of trains standing in the station, and we wanted to be sure to get aboard one of them before they all pulled out." Guido Carli, governor of the Bank of Italy, has long criticized Italian banks for lagging behind the "financial supermarkets" of the U.S., in size and range of services. By working together, Europeans will be able to provide both sufficient capital for the needs of the 1970s and the flexibility to deliver...
...with the ghosts of potted palms and a thousand big-name bands, Diana Ross makes her electric entrance, shimmering like a Broadway sign. She sports a frizzy Afro wig about the size of a boxwood hedge and a sequined sarong that looks as if it were cut from the Orion constellation. That's not the only star trip this lady is on. She seizes the microphone and leans into a song: Don't Rain on My Parade. What is this? Diana Ross, ex-Supreme, making like Barbra Streisand...
...frequencies in the multibillion-hertz range into more easily detectable radio frequencies of about 100 million hertz. After adapting this device to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's 36-ft. dish antenna at Arizona's Kitt Peak, the Bell scientists aimed the radio telescope at the distant Orion Nebula, a region of glowing gases more than 1,600 light-years away, a favorite target of molecule hunters...