Word: teller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alchemist. In Orlando, Fla., facing a forgery charge for boosting a check, Clarence Hickey, 25, pleaded magic, explained that a fortune teller had sprinkled a pile of white powder on the check which instantly increased its worth from...
...neighbor most concerned was Bonwit Teller's President Walter Hoving. As soon as he read about the plans of Maidman and Bulova, Department Storeman Hoving rode right out to Oyster Bay, L.I. to suggest to Tiffany President Louis de Bébian Moore that he take over. Hoving armed his offer with a pledge to preserve Tiffany's character and traditions, and leave management unchanged...
...owner and operator of Bonwit Teller, Hoving Corp. is 65% controlled by Philadelphia's Bankers Securities Corp., whose board chairman is Financier Albert Greenfield...
From the U.S. also came one of the few somber notes to temper Geneva's optimism. In a paper written with two co-workers (Roger McCollough, Mark Wells), the University of California's famed H-expert, Edward Teller, warned that science has not yet found sure ways to prevent peaceful reactors from blowing up. "[Despite] all the inherent safeguards that can be put into a reactor," said Teller, ". . . it is important to emphasize . . . the public hazard that might follow a reactor accident . . . [Because of leaking radiation] it may be necessary to evacuate a large city, to abandon...
...highly vocal school of nuclear scientists (e.g., Chicago's Harold Urey) which insists that the only guarantees against nuclear war are political projects, such as world government. On atomic policy he has shown strong opinions, stood as one of the minority of atomic scientists who sided with Edward Teller and other advocates of the H-bomb "crash program" in opposition to the group headed by J. Robert Oppenheimer...