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...takeovers are partly catchupmanship. The bank has been slow to follow the trend to international branch banking, as well as to join the brigade of British bankers in bowlers entering the lucrative California market. Since 1968, Midland's rivals-Barclays, Lloyds, Standard Chartered and the Royal Bank of Scotland-have all established offices there...
...former chairman of the socialist Fabian Society, wrote a pamphlet that inspired Sir Geoffrey Howe, the Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, to urge that it be tried. Despite strong opposition from the Labor Party, the Conservative government in April provided about $70 million for six enterprise districts in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland...
...Egypt's western desert, on the assumption that the oil does not stop at the Libyan border, as well as in the Sinai and the Gulf of Suez. Drilling is also continuing in Europe's North Sea, around Norway and Britain. West of the Shetland Islands, off Scotland, the state-owned British National Oil Corp. is test drilling in 4,500 ft. of water, the second greatest depth ever...
...Bergelin. The coach was anxious for Borg to concentrate on improving his game, and Borg was willing. But the young man, who had limited his long-distance telephoning to habitual every-other-day calls to his parents, was also anxious to locate Mariana. "I was playing a tournament in Scotland," she says. "Somehow he found me. We talked and talked...
Larry Gelbart's original script-about a couple of high-society crooks, their $30 million heist and the wily Scotland Yard inspector (David Niven) who dogs their trail-may have meant to revive the old Hitchcock tradition of sophisticated comedy. But so frail a genre is more style than substance, and Siegel's trooper-boot direction flattens out the laugh lines and bits of business until they have all the charm of an airport runway. Gelbart was smart enough to remove his name from the credits (hence the screenwriter pseudonym). Reynolds was not so lucky...