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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said, to any country that would accept him. As that word was passed, Meyer Lansky, 70, the former Miami gambling king who was ejected from Israel after a two-year stay, took off on a two-day intercontinental odyssey in search of a home. After changing planes in Zurich, he boarded an overnight flight to Rio de Janeiro. But would Brazil let him stay? It did not even let him out of the airport. Neither did Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru or Panama. Inexorably, Lansky's airliner continued its flight to Miami, and there two waiting FBI agents arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 20, 1972 | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

Ponto spent his early childhood in Ecuador and Chile, where his German father ran an export-import business. After the war he studied at Göttingen, Hamburg, Zurich, Cambridge and the University of Washington, where he did half a year of graduate work in international law. He joined Dresdner Bank in 1950 "out of curiosity about figures," and by 1969 made it to chief executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXECUTIVES: The Young Lions of Europe | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

...last December, they agreed to buy up any dollars that flooded into their countries. Thus they headed off at least temporarily the possibility of still another dollar devaluation and protected the present values of other weak currencies. Still, there may well be new blowups ahead. A top officer of Zurich's Credit Suisse bank summed up the mood among Europe's moneymen: "We have some very hot days before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY: Holding Up Somehow | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

WHEN money tremors shake men and nations, heads of state often rush to blame international speculators, who are often pictured as latter-day Rasputins driving the values of currencies up and down by ruthless manipulation. British Laborite George Brown once contemptuously dubbed speculators "the gnomes of Zurich." President Nixon last year damned them for "waging an all-out war on the American dollar." Who are the speculators? And how much clout do they wield in world money markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Behind the Currency Curtain: Meet a Real Gnome | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

Corporate financial managers relay their wishes to professional currency dealers, who decide where to dump weak currencies, where to pick up strong ones, and at what price to buy or sell. The dealers are the real gnomes, but not many reside in Zurich. Most are found at commercial banks in London, Manhattan and Frankfurt, and some are in Tokyo, Sydney, San Francisco and Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Behind the Currency Curtain: Meet a Real Gnome | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

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