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...Mahal. Among other exports on exhibit are Chinese silks found in Arab tombs in Africa and early carved cinnebar lacquerware, lent by a Japanese temple. But it was in defiance of Mongol tastes that one of the greatest of China's arts-scroll painting-made the largest advance of all. The most inventive Chinese painters, the wen-jen, or literary men, withdrew from the court, preferring to paint and write poetry for a small coterie in the country...
...Chase Manhattan Bank, which loves to portray itself as the friend of borrowers big and little, last week played that role to the hilt. The bank, the nation's third largest, cut its prime rate-the interest charge to its best business customers for loans - from 61% to 6%. The repercussions were plentiful, and in part acrimonious...
Last week Helmsley, a former office boy who, at 59, has become one of the nation's largest real estate owners, an nounced his latest purchase. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. has agreed to sell Helmsley its gigantic Parkchester apartment complex in The Bronx...
...startling recent example of a business trend that is fast turning into a race: conglomerate mergers, or unions of companies in unrelated fields. Outwardly, Xerox and its fantastically successful photocopying machines (1967 sales: $700 million) may seem to have little in common with C.I.T., the nation's second largest finance company, which also has interests in insurance, banking and consumer goods...
...seeping out, and both knew that the Securities and Exchange Commission takes a dim view these days of executives who hold back news of pending deals. Thus last week the top men of Xerox Corp. and C.I.T. Financial Corp. announced plans to join their companies in one of the largest corporate mergers in history...