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...earners of the globe, and several of them are growing faster abroad than at home. Last week Manhattan's First National City Bank -which already has outposts from Santo Domingo to Dubai, the chief port of the Arabian Trucial States - opened an other in the Chowringhi section of Calcutta, and this week Manhattan's Mor gan Guaranty Trust Co. will open a branch in Antwerp. In all, the number of foreign branches operated by U.S. banks has risen in the past five years from 124 to 215, and the total grows almost every week...
...Asia's burden of religious, linguistic and racial antagonism is added the weight of history. New grievances as well as old goad Asians to seek what Calcutta Philosopher Abu Sayeed Ayub calls "the appeasement of the ghosts of our ancestors by slaughtering members of another community." Conquerors have come and gone across Asia, sowing rancor as they marched. For generations after the Burmese raped Siam, Thai women wore crewcuts to avoid being hauled off by the hair. During World War II, brutality by the Japanese earned them loathing throughout Asia; until recently, any Japanese who toured the Philippines risked...
...after serving only 2¼ years, Sands, then 23, embarked on a lusty round-the-world odyssey. He sailed the wartime Pacific as a merchant seaman, made up for the years of prison-enforced sexual abstinence in a ten-day romp with an American Red Cross girl in Calcutta, worked for Aramco in Saudi Arabia, dug for diamonds in Venezuela, managed five jungle airports for Panagra in Bolivia, became a skilled pilot and a top-rated sports-car driver...
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Until the Moslem-Hindu partition that created Pakistan in 1947, the Adamjee family owned a jute mill near Calcutta and ran a thriving export business. Then partition left Pakistan with 42% of the world's jute crop and no jute mills. To Adamjee, a Moslem, his duty was clear. He liquidated his substantial holdings in India, moved his entire family to Pakistan, where the grateful government helped him finance the new nation's first jute mill. Today, the family's assets are $75 million. In West Pakistan, Adamjee's two brothers have constructed a $6.3 million...