Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smokies to Sea. Wachovia and the Southeast have prospered together. The bank was founded in 1879 by descendants of the Moravian settlers, who named the Upper Piedmont section of the state Wachau after a pretty valley in Austria. Wachovia was a relatively quiet little bank until about ten years ago. Then, convinced that the South was headed for tremendous growth, its management speeded up the bank's expansion and made an all-out bid for the business of big corporations...
...safety. The two stories join only at one point, where Oxenstierna happens to meet the two young people and, taking pity on them, gives them a safe-conduct that ironically leads to their deaths. Yet the two narratives could hardly be more intimately related. They are the gorgeous upper side and slimy reverse of a banner dragged across a muddy battlefield...
...Times's Curtis was covering an upper-crust Waltz Evening in Boston's Sheraton Plaza Hotel, and she could not resist noting that the ballroom temperature steadily ascended from 59° to 64°, impelled by all that genteel exertion. Nor did she refrain from logging the other leisure pursuits of Mrs. E. Sohier Welch, patroness and architect of the bash. In her spare time, reported Society Reporter Curtis, Mrs. Welch crusades against billboards, litterbugs, and "laws that prevent the sale of birth control devices in Massachusetts...
...Germany, every patient was found to have been previously infected with an ornithosis virus like that of psittacosis (parrot fever). In the Galveston case, the researchers say, "our two patients could easily have had opportunity for infection from pigeons, which were often just outside the window of their upper-story room." If a virus like that of psittacosis can be proved to initiate cell changes in Hodgkin's, both theories about the origin of the disease will be neatly fitted together and proved right...
...politics and economics. Gerschenkron now sees it, however, as an attempt to pick out the political factor in economics, and to define its importance. "The key thing is to establish the limits of propositions and approaches--the boundaries beyond which the hypotheses no longer hold water." By teaching an upper-level General Education course, rather than one on strict economic history, Gerschenkron can proceed by "free association." "I feel liberated from the rigor of discipline. If I find something that interest the students and myself, we can follow...