Word: teller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tall (6 ft. 3 in.) and shambling figure, he has become something of a legend in Washington for his ability to duck controversy. During the intense debate over whether the U.S. should build an H-bomb, he managed to retain the friendship of both Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller. On the one hand, he agreed with Teller that the bomb should be built; on the other, he so qualified his support that even Oppenheimer, the project's chief opponent, could hardly take offense...
...resources of a 20-year-old, living in the world of the half married, half widowed, were slight supports. She tried going back to her bank teller's job but had to quit; living in San Diego, a naval town where every uniform made her edgy, was too much. Finally, she achieved a bearable tension at her parents' Southern California home. Talks with her father, a retired Air Force colonel, and a friend who had been a World War II P.O.W., at least reduced the unknown terrors...
There are plenty of rumors of problems at Lord & Taylor, Arnold Constable and Saks Fifth Avenue. The managements of B. Altman and Bonwit Teller recently took the unusual step of sending letters to their employees assuring them that the stores would not be closed. Meanwhile, on Madison Avenue, Abercrombie & Fitch has been plagued by the common problem of thefts and other runaway costs; the company lost nearly $1,000,000 on sales of $28 million in fiscal...
Congeniality does not come easily to Flip. Born in Jersey City, N.J., one of 16 children, he started on the foster-home circuit when he was seven. He lived with a family of Holy Rollers and a fortune teller. At 16 he lied about his age and joined the Air Force, where a white Southern major took him in hand, tutored him in grammar and diction and sent him to typing school...
...come back to us, Robert A. Heinlein, amateur astronomer, former naval person, practical engineer, supreme cynic, ideological flibbertigibbet, magnificent story-teller. It will be too much to take if the bad madness of the nation has ruined...