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...upper sparrow. Her voice sounds all of 20 years old. Her manner, for all her speed, is soothing. Just when you think she might be turning into Bonnie Baker, however, she kicks the lid off and begins to scat: "Scoodee-oo-da-do-dee-uba-ty-ty-ta-roo...
While 1,000 guests banqueted on Mexican delicacies last week at the fashionable Hotel Maria Isabel in Mexico City, a small group of men spread out far to the south into the vastness of Yucatan and Quintana Roo. Banqueters and scouts had something in common: the Bank of London and Mexico, Mexico's oldest bank. The guests were celebrating the bank's 100th birthday and ogling a group of visitors that included four Cabinet members. The scouts were hard at work searching for new bank sites in the sparsely populated southeast, thus demonstrating the determination that has helped...
...make a sterner test of it. Off Newport, R.I., this summer, two new British twelves will fight it out for the right to challenge the U.S. in the best-of-seven series. They are Sovereign, owned by London Financier Anthony Boy den, 36, and Kurrewa V (pronounced Coo-roo-aa),* jointly financed by British and Australian money and skippered by British Yachtsman Owen Parker...
...currency was called the real (ray-ahl). After a decade of independence, the government had to proclaim a new unit of currency, awkwardly named the milreis (mill-rayss), meaning a thousand reals. Now, after many more rounds of inflation, the basic currency unit is the cruzeiro (crew-zay-roo), and inflation is shriveling it too. Its present exchange value is a small fraction of a cent. The 1,000-cruzeiro bill, long Brazil's biggest bank note, is worth only a little more than...
...Thanksgiving Day last week, Harry's celebrated the 50th anniversary of its opening, and the sentiment flowed as freely as the booze. It seemed that oldtimers had come from all over the world to 5 Rue Daunou ("Just tell the taxi driver 'Sank Roo Doe Noo' ") to pay homage to the good old days...