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...management at Crédit Suisse chose to overlook some astonishingly clear signals that all was not well at their Chiasso branch. In January 1976, for example, Philippe de Weck, chairman of the Union Bank of Switzerland, showed Crédit Suisse a copy of a bank guarantee, improperly issued on fiduciary deposits, that had been channeled to Texon. Questioned about the violation, Kuhrmeier explained it away by saying, "It was a special favor that had to be done for a friend...
...Country, near Williamsburg, has a vast Festhaus where visitors can quaff Michelob and munch bratwurst. The company's Dark Continent, near Tampa, has replicated a famed Swiss inn and offers one of the few gourmet menus in the world that allows the diner to eat, sip wine and overlook the goings-on of free-ranging chimps, giraffes, zebras, ostriches and elephants...
...veterinary education in the U.S. [April 18] may be the result of a "back-to-basics, return-to-the-land ethos." Even so, I was surprised at the narrow perspective you take of this dynamic and growing profession. Although you allude to the involvement of veterinarians in research, you overlook their involvement in a broad range of public health activities...
...finally, let's not overlook the 360-degree turn Harvard baseball made this season on account of some pig-headed athletic intellectuals down on the Cape. Guess we'll just have to go get 'em next year--Ugh, I said it again...
...same endemic corruption, the same extremes of wealth and poverty that led, in part, to Sukarno's downfall. One clue to the potential depth of discontent: in the capital of Jakarta, a teeming (pop. about 6 million) city of shopping centers and new high-rise hotels that overlook crumbling shanty towns, the Muslim party, which had campaigned against the regime's abuse of power, won 46.7% of the vote, while Golkar got only 34.8%. Cabled TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein, who spent ten days touring Indonesia just before the election: "The powerful odor of corruption that emanates from government...