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Jargon & Tradition. Many of today's City leaders descend from the merchant bankers who bankrolled Britain's colonial expansion and cleared whole continents in the days when sterling was supreme. The most influential among them is the scion of a 200-year-old banking family: George R. S. Baring, 46, third Earl of Cromer, who, as the outspoken and energetic Governor of the Bank of England, was the chief British architect of last fortnight's $3 billion rescue of the pound. At the top of the private banks are scores of modern-day Rothschilds, Schroders, Brandts, Hambros...
Such harsh tactics have made enemies for the new government among those who fear that the revolution will descend into dictatorship. Yet thoughtful Brazilians also recognize Castello Branco as a man who, alone among recent Brazilian presidents, is doing what he set out to do. Of 147 bills sent to Congress since the March revolution, 102 have been approved, covering everything from agrarian reform to low-cost housing credit. Foreign capital is flowing back into Brazil for the first time in three years. And some cherished Brazilian ideas are going down the drain-that uncontrolled inflation is inevitable, that...
...That's formed a little cloud above me that's started to descend and has tightened me up in practice the last two weeks...
...over me. With pounding heart and light, hurried breaths, I opened the door and gazed upon the smiling Assemblage, then collapsed with ecstacy at attaining the Vision of my Section Man; and saw far below me Lowell Lec, infinitely plateau I saw glass doors right and left, must regretfully descend in another half-hour with a renewed Energy and transformed Soul. Shirley Tung...
...anyone can still be described as courtly, "C.D." could. A smiling charm seemed to descend from his tall figure in any setting. He had a reputation of being able to get into a white tie faster than anyone, and he was as relaxed at a reception as he was at the controls of a plane-he took up flying in his middle years. One of his great loves was music, and for close friends C. D. and his wife Gracie would play piano duos in their New York apartment. The Boston Symphony, on whose board he served, sent its string...