Word: teller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...division, Melpar, builds radar jammers and pilotless "drone" aircraft that can be programmed to fly over an enemy's turf, photograph installations and drop bombs. Another division in Dallas makes high-technology civilian products, including tiny devices that can be used to foil bank robbers. Placed in a teller's drawer, the device will trigger an alarm when a teller removes the last bill in a stack, thus reducing pressure...
...Patty's lawyers argued, was pointing her carbine at the defendant. Vernon Kipping, the FBI expert who made a movie out of the pictures, testified that the exclusion was "inadvertent." He added that Hall did not seem to be covering Patty but was aiming her gun at the teller's windows. New photographs, including Hall, were shown to the jury, but Judge Carter denied the defense's plea to dismiss the indictments...
GEORGES SIMENON is the most prolific writer living, the famed mystery story-teller of over 400 novels and creator of the diffident Commissaire Maigret of the Quai des Orfevres Criminal Brigade. His first novel, which appeared in 1923, was written in one week to meet a publisher's deadline, and in succeeding years he has never deviated from that schedule, nor from the plot format he first laid down. This methodical grinding out of thrillers has made him the best-selling French author ever, a kind of freak of technique in the publishing world, and has earned him millions...
...celebration. It is the frequency of its reception that makes the real difference. When the entertainment appears daily, even hourly, the focus becomes the transmitter, not the information. This may be the only way of coping with the fact boom: personalizing information by identifying the story with the teller. Being talked about gives the politician, the athlete, the artist a legitimacy. The celebrant was once a person who performed a religious rite; now the celebrant is the creator of the celebrity. It is not strange that television broadcasters should be thought of, by some, as presidential possibilities...
...early 1974 "Citicard Centers" appeared. That is a fancy name for small terminals spotted about a bank branch; by inserting their Citicards, customers can get information about their accounts without bothering to walk up to a teller's window. Within months the terminals were set up in department stores and other retail outlets to enable bank customers to pay for their purchases with personal checks that the merchant could quickly verify. Today Citibank has terminals in more than 2,500 retail outlets, 120 of them across the state line in New Jersey, where it is legally forbidden to open...