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...National Bank even hangs oils in its ladies' lounges). But New York's Manhattan Savings Bank goes them one better: it provides the public with noonday piano recitals and evening operas on its banking floors. At the urging of Opera Buff John M. Will, president of American Export Lines, the shipping firm last fall financed $135,000 worth of sets and costumes for a new Metropolitan Opera production...
Taking over the Finance Ministry in 1962, Sanz proposed the toughest austerity program in Colombia's history. He slapped an export tax on coffee, a 20% surcharge on personal and corporate income taxes, even pushed through higher taxes on beer, races, lotteries and gasoline. Rich and poor alike bellowed with pain. But Colombia expects to balance its budget by next year, and international bankers back what one of them called "the greatest tax reform in Latin America." Sanz will now have an important if slim chance to work some reforms on a broader scale...
...Britain recently made a trade deal with the Communist dictator. And last week while Castro was in Moscow, a new Soviet-Cuban trade agreement was announced. In return for the favor, Castro promised to sign the atomic test ban treaty. All the while, he continues to try to export his revolution to other Latin American countries...
...chokers. He: "Will you marry me?" She: "Why settle for one dish when there's smorgasbord?" But now and then there are some funny lines. There is plenty of fast action, too. And there is Elke Sommer, a blizzard blonde who is just possibly the most important German export since the frankfurter. In Hollywood they call her Elke Seltzer, and she may put a fresh fizz in the neighborhood...
...London's diamond center. Hambros also runs 45 investment funds, and its Bishopsgate Property Investment Co. is the world's biggest fund dealing in real estate shares. In the U.S., Hambros has fared unevenly. "We lost our pants," admits Jack Hambro of a 1950 attempt to export more kippers and British honey. But in another project in which Hambros increased the exports of British cars, "we recovered our pants...