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...Martin is wrong." At week's end, President Johnson issued four bullish press releases in one day, devoted about 15 minutes of his press conference to praising the economy. Lesser lights in the Administration were sent out to make glowing economic predictions on platforms from Buffalo to Barcelona...
...foreign branches from 113 to 132, and the Chase Manhattan will open six foreign branches in 1965, bringing its total to 37. Bank of America so far this year has opened in Singapore, Taipei and Nicaragua, plans in the next few months to move into Vienna, Antwerp, Madrid and Barcelona. In recent months, Manhattan's Marine Midland entered Europe for the first time, Manhattan's Chemical Bank went into Asia, and Chicago's Continental Illinois bought interests in banks in five countries from Argentina to Zambia. Says Roger Damon, president of the First National Bank of Boston...
Backfire. The star of this sleek French melodrama is a Triumph sports convertible. Shipped from Barcelona to Beirut, the car gets past customs but has difficulty getting out of town. Sluggish performance. "I can scarcely shift into high," complains the man at the wheel. The svelte blonde smuggler at his side smiles and tells him why. The Triumph has a $300,000 paint job. Under a surface coat of white, its body is gilded with 300 kilos of solid gold...
...store now is also owned by Minimax: its Pryca store in Madrid, which sells TV sets as well as T-bone steaks, also provides shoe repair and coin-operated laundry service. So successful is the store that the chain is already building three more stores in Madrid, two in Barcelona and one in Malaga...
...last week St. Louis voters turned Tucker out, nominated as his replacement a prominent Jack-of-all-trades with the fascinating name, in the city of Anheuser-Busch, of Alphonso Juan Cervantes. A great-great-grandson of a Spanish immigrant from Barcelona who wandered to frontier St. Louis via New Orleans, Cervantes, 44, served for four years as president of the city's board of aldermen until he was defeated in 1963 by a Tucker-backed candidate. Cervantes is president of an insurance agency, vice president of the Resort Corp. of Missouri, which operates a lodge beside Missouri...