Word: safe-deposit
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...have a bit of a decision to make," begins Quentin, to an unnamed listener--perhaps society, perhaps his conscience--whether or not to commit himself again, to a woman. "But look at my life. A life, after all, is evidence, and I have two divorces in my safe-deposit box." However, he admits, "With all this darkness, the truth is that every morning when I awake, I'm full of hope!" For what, then, is he searching...
...after-midnight announcement last week was intended to catch businessmen unawares. When they rushed to their offices next morning they were met by troops and tanks at the factory gates; at the government-owned banks, some found their safe-deposit boxes had been opened and all hard currency found there replaced by Syrian pounds. But Syrian businessmen are every bit as canny as their socialist rulers. They had long feared the worst, and since March 1963 an estimated $1 billion has been smuggled out of the country to safety in Lebanon and Switzerland. With last week's repressive action...
...York's Governor Thomas Dewey called him "the new king of the rackets." And king or not, he made crime pay. His wealth, said Valachi, "would break the adding machine." His estranged wife said that Genovese was worth over $30 million, mostly stashed away in safe-deposit boxes...
...pattern of violence. Six men broke into the offices of the Société Générale Commerciale de 1'Est on Paris' Quai Anatole-France, forced the president to open the safe, and made off with $80,000 in gold and currency. In Beaune, 170 miles southeast of Paris, thieves looted the safe-deposit boxes of a local bank, getting away with an estimated $2,000,000 in cash and jewelry...
...word to Washington, and the hunt was on. In Los Angeles a Chinese-American customs officer, masquerading as a prospective buyer, nailed down a young refugee named Paul Yang to whom Chen had entrusted a $12,000 bronze turtle. Sure enough, the turtle turned up in Yang's safe-deposit box, and last week Yang was slapped into jail...