Word: anas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the securities actually change hands next month, Lytton S&L plans to merge with two smaller Southern California savings-and-loan associations, Equitable of Long Branch (assets: $318 million) and Mission of Santa Ana (assets: $39 million). The mammoth merger was approved by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board two weeks ago, but financial men are more fascinated by the audacity of the move than by its size. Says one competitor: "Wellman is converting three alley cats into a pedigreed lion...
...problem with such a decentralized layout is that guests have to walk a long way to their rooms, and room service might arrive mañana. To cut down on the time lag, the hotel on each floor keeps a roaming cart that is in constant touch with the kitchen by radio. The hallways are designed to make guests enjoy their walk by providing surprise glimpses of the gardens and pools. President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz of Mexico was so delighted by the walks that he lingered 90 minutes exploring the hotel, though he had scheduled only a 25-minute visit...
...ANA DE VARGAS...
...FESTIVAL. Béla Bartók's one-act opera Bluebeard's Castle sung by Soprano Ana Raquel-Satre and Baritone Norman Foster with the Zagreb Philharmonica...
...some tourists, to be sure, will find the pleasures of Mexico mixed. To enjoy the very foreignness that gives the visitors the exhilarating sense of being far away while still close to home, it is also necessary to come to terms with the special Mexican ambiente. The mañana era may be over, but it has been succeeded by hay tiempo ("there's time"). Some hotels have clocks with no hands, apparently to prove that time does not count. Sometimes hay tiempo also means late planes, canceled tours and misplaced hotel reservations. "We're trying as hard...