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Southeast Asia's local bankers have customarily operated on two principles: keep interest rates up and keep controversies with the government down. The maverick Bangkok Bank has reversed both principles, yet has become the largest commercial bank in Thailand. It has increased its assets tenfold in the past ten years (to $180 million), and since 1960 has doubled its number of branches. Besides its 42 domestic locations, the bank also has nine foreign outposts, from Saigon to London. Last week, while designing a 16-story home office that will be Bangkok's tallest building, the bank was also...
...time for fiction one of the most refreshing recent developments has been a vigorous new growth of satiric talent. It comes from a promising, if often provoking new group of U.S. novelists who were unpublished or all but unnoticed a few years ago These writers demand attention with a maverick, inventive, acidulously adult outlook that delights in salting the sores and needling the niceties of the megaton-megalopolis age. They deserve notice because their brand of comedy is so clearly not the saccharine hilarity packaged by commercial laff merchants not the bad-boy snigger of contemporary bedroom farce. Nor does...
...Should? He Should. He is a freewheeling, sharp-speaking man whom other businessmen like to describe as a "maverick," and he has had solid careers in both Washington bureaucracy and big business. A graduate of Syracuse University ('36) and Harvard Law School ('39), he went to work for a top New York law firm, moved off to Washington in 1942 as a Lend-Lease Administration lawyer, soon switched over to be chief counsel to Dr. Vannevar Bush's Office of Scientific Research and Development, which was then working on the atomic bomb. He spent a postwar year...
Yorty, 55, is no pushover, not even for the eldest son of F.D.R. A maverick, he started his political career as an ultraliberal California assemblyman but turned conservative, and vociferously antiCommunist, during two terms in the U.S. House and backed Republican Richard Nixon in 1960. That brought threats from regular Democrats to get Sam's scalp, but he went on to win an upset victory for mayor...
...sovereign nation, Rhodesia might lose some $5,500,000 a year that Britain contributes toward balancing its budget. As a maverick state outside the Commonwealth, it would have to find new markets for more than half of its yearly exports, and would forfeit highly preferential Commonwealth tariff rates...