Word: teller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tony meets at the 2001 and with whom he inevitably falls in love. Stephanie looks down on Tony and his neighborhood because she works in a Manhattan record agency, where everything is beautiful: "The people are beautiful, the offices are beautiful, lunch hours are beautiful, everyone shops at Bonwit Teller," she maintains. The first time Tony and Stephanie talk over coffee is a funny scene, with Stephanie obnoxiously dropping names of the movie and rock stars she's lunched with, and Tony gamely trying to hang on in the conversation...
...Friday night, as the weekend was beginning, the chief teller-standing in a cage behind a series of locked and guarded doors in the vault area two floors beneath ground level-had counted the money. It was resting on cart T-12, and the bundles of cash added up to $4 million. He wheeled the cart through another heavy door into the main vault. At the end of work on Tuesday, after the bank had reopened, the chief teller counted the money again. This time the tally was $3 million...
...First, the thief had to get by several sets of guards (who log all comings and goings in the vault area) as well as TV monitors over the entrance. Then he presumably had to have one of the cart's four keys, to which supposedly only the chief teller, his supervisor and a few bank officers had access. The thief must evidently have been so familiar a figure in the bank that he was able to leave unnoticed with a haul that weighed a mere 20 lbs.-just right for a banker's briefcase. The FBI believed...
...last week's end the FBI appeared near a break on the case after administering lie detector tests to bank employees. (The chief teller and almost all of the 100 other bank workers passed the test with no trouble.) Said an FBI agent cryptically: "The pieces are beginning to fall together. We do have some suspects; we have narrowed it down." One theory was that someone with access to the vaults had walked off with the cash and turned it over to a confederate, who had flown it out of the country. The prospect of an arrest without recovery...
...Edward Teller, principal architect of the H-bomb, reflecting on his life 25 years later: "I don't give a good damn what my public image is. I have one image of myself and that is of a man who is shaving...