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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...
...from Stone. For a paltry budget of $300 a year, Rosenberg has assembled an unsurpassed teaching collection of modern prints since his appointment as a Fogg curator in 1939. All of the works in the show? two-thirds of which were acquired over the years by Rosenberg? have increased tenfold in value. A Kirchner woodcut bought in 1945 for $90 is now worth $2,000. Klee's 1923 lithograph, Tight rope Walker, cost him $40, and now would command 15 times the price...
Gray Mackenzie padlocked its doors, and the poisoning cases began to stagger in as sales of after-shave lotions and cologne soared tenfold. Several dozen British and American petroleum engineers served notice that they would not renew their employment contracts if Kuwait stayed dry. Several influential Kuwaitis have applied to remote countries for posts as honorary consuls, hoping thereby to qualify for diplomatic liquor privileges. Many of the thirsty began flocking to Basra in Iraq, 100 miles from Kuwait City. Their pilgrimage has also produced agitation for repeal of the law from their weekend widows left behind. They fear that...
...food poisoning can be prevented by standard modern methods of hygienic food handling, by common kitchen cleanliness, by proper cooking and by ordinary household refrigeration. But the A.M.A. was worried-and with reason. In the last 20 years, despite modern kitchens the reported cases of salmonellosis have increased tenfold, and so far this year there have been 13,500 cases, a rate that is an ominous 69% above the 1963 level...
...Dealers Association of America, which is the country's unofficial evaluator of art-worthiness, reported that donors squeezing under the deadline had increased demands for appraisals tenfold. Just under the wire the Philadelphia Museum got a Picasso, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts three 18th century American portraits. Manhattan's Metropolitan received a score of donations, compared with none for this time last year. No one was telling what the last-minute nongifts were: they are still over the fireplaces...