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Still holding things up was the foreign aid bill. A House-Senate conference committee had agreed on a $3 billion appropriation, $1.9 billion less than the Kennedy Administration originally requested. Now at issue was a House amendment prohibiting the Export-Import Bank of Washington from guaranteeing loans in commercial transactions with Communist nations-such as the much-publicized wheat deal with Russia...
...struggle against Brazil's wild inflation (about 85% in 1963), its fleeing capital and its immense foreign debt. In to cope with the same problems came Ney Galvao, 60, a smalltime provincial banker whose only previous claim to fame was as a Goulart-appointed head of the Bank of Brazil...
KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A professional gambler teams up with a Texas millionaire in a scientific attempt to break the bank at a Las Vegas casino. Jack Kelly and Pat Hingle guest-star. Color...
Most Secretive. In London, N. M. Rothschild & Sons is constructing a new, six-story headquarters in the City to symbolize its revival. It continues to be Britain's most secretive bank, but it is getting a little less so. To lure fresh talent and provide for its expanding services, the bank has admitted three non-Rothschilds as partners (the family still controls with four partners). The British Rothschilds, who still are the world's most important bullion dealers, have started a factoring company, an investment advisory service and two mutual funds, are participating in a consortium to underwrite...
Beyond the companies that they dominate or influence, the Rothschilds have holdings in more than 100 blue chips, including Royal Dutch/Shell, De Beers, Michelin, Rio Tinto, IBM. The French branch's string-tied bundles of stock fill an ancient five-story bank vault whose keyholes are hidden behind brass lionheads. In the buff sandstone building at 21 Rue Laffitte that has been home to de Rothschild Freres since 1817, muttonchop-whiskered family ancients line the walls in oil and marble, and ushers wearing black swallow-tailed coats attend the customers, while 300 employees quietly work. Guy de Rothschild occupies...