Word: teller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...negotiations. Neither family background nor efficient handling of New York state problems should obscure this fact. The incidental agreement with his views on nuclear testing on the part of Dean Acheson and Harry Truman is therefore less significant than the more basic congruence of his views with those of Teller, Strauss, and Bill Buckley. Derek Hudson, Arlington, Mass...
Disqualified. In San Francisco, after reeling into a bank and demanding some money while hammering on the teller's counter with a wine bottle, James R. Shaw, 51, was released by cops, who reckoned that he was much too drunk to be trying a serious holdup...
...truer to Twain if some of the cuttings were better. If Twain is "America's funniest humorist," as all the advertisements say, and even if he isn't--much of his charm rests on an especially endowed talent for spinning the old Western tall tale. Sometimes the story-teller, without cracking a smile, is able to convince his victim that his whole tale is gospel truth and is able to use this tale for all sorts of devious ends. But the comic aspect lies chiefly in the exaggerated proportions of the tale itself...
Last week booming Northland received a distinction presently unmatched by any other four-year liberal-arts college. Courtesy of General Dynamics, it will soon have a $250,000 atomic reactor, along with famed Physicists Edward Teller and Frederic de Hoffmann on loan from time to time to lecture in a new $1,000,000 science building. With an additional $10 million endowment in the offing (all earmarked for teachers' salaries), Northland faces an even rosier future. Says go-getting President Turbeville, who has turned down industry offers at more than double his $15,000 salary: "In ten years...
Ford Startime (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Sir Alec Guinness makes his U.S. TV debut in The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Deeks, as a bank teller who embezzled cash, not by dipping into the till, but by depositing money in other people's accounts...