Word: traveled
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Birth Pains. Compared to most citadels of high finance, Eugene Black's World Bank is as odd as a platypus in a poultry yard. In its slabsided headquarters in Washington, D.C., it does not even have a vault. Once, when money was left lying around-$30,000 in travel funds-it was promptly stolen by a thief who made a clean getaway. The World Bank was born at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference,*almost as an afterthought to its sister institution, the International Monetary Fund, set up to deal with the temporary "disequilibrium" in world currency-exchange rates...
...telephone and travel, McKinney, De Sapio and other Harriman strategists will spread out a national net in an effort to pull in delegates for Harriman. The candidate himself will plunge promptly into open campaigning, is touted to make a big splash at the Governors' Conference in Atlantic City, NJ. late this month. Before the Democratic Convention opens Aug. 13, he will make trips to Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, Minnesota, North Dakota, probably to Michigan, Wisconsin and Washington, and possibly to other states...
...AIRLINE TRAVEL will jump 60% in the next five years, says United Air Lines President William A. Patterson. By 1965, adds Patterson, airlines will carry more than 50% of all intercity travel v. 32% last year...
Frederick Shelton prize fellowships for travel in any part of the world have been awarded to three seniors--John A. Armstrong of Leverett and Schenectady, Paul A. David of Adams and New York City, and Karl G. Heider of Winthrop and Lawrence, Kansas, it was announced yesterday...
Died. Ada Galsworthy, 89, widow of Britain's Nobel Prizewinning Author John Galsworthy, desultory travel writer (Over the Hills and Far Away) and model for Irene in Galsworthy's monumental trilogy The Forsyte Saga; in London...