Word: cyril
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...lead bank in the deal, London's Kleinwort, Benson, Ltd., admitted that they had acceded to pressure from two other participants in the underwriting, the Libyan Arab Foreign Bank and the Kuwait Foreign Trading, Contracting and Investment Co. If Kleinwort had not given in, said its chief, Sir Cyril Kleinwort, the Arabs would have invested their money elsewhere. But other London bankers noted skeptically that Kleinwort, Benson was all too happy to exclude its competitors, Rothschild and Warburg, which are bigger and better established than Kleinwort in the Eurobond market...
...EVENING COLONNADE by CYRIL CONNOLLY 469 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...coral reef coming in. And so the hypothetical question has become not what one Great Book but what one Great Reader would you want to be shipwrecked with on a desert island. For the past four decades, the right answer for the literate Robinson Crusoe has been Cyril Connolly, who died last November...
...Died. Cyril V. Connolly, 71, erudite English critic and editor; in London...
...acoustics of Minneapolis' Orchestra Hall are the work of Cyril M. Harris of New York, a professor of architecture and electrical engineering at Columbia University. He is already responsible for the excellent sonics at the Metropolitan Opera and the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. By now it is only fair to hail Harris as an acoustics virtuoso. Harris' secret, if it can be called that, is to stick as closely as possible to classic European models like Vienna's Grosser Musikvereinssaal. That means a rectangular shape, plenty of wood and plaster, no concrete or vinyl...