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Canada's target is the Mercantile Bank of Canada (assets: $225 million), which, as smallest by far of the country's eight nationally chartered banks, would hardly be noticed were it not wholly owned by New York's First Na tional City Bank. In Ottawa last week, parliamentary hearings began on a bill designed to limit the size of banks in which non-Canadians have more than a 25% interest. Mercantile, as it happens, would be the only one affected; under the new rules, it would be forced to pare its assets to $200 million or find...
...book is obviously aimed at a broader market than the one now domnated by the five-year-old Webster's Third New Interna tional Dictionary, which sells for $47.50, the 13-volume Oxford English Dictionary, which was last updated in 1933 and costs $300, and the $47.50 Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language, mainly unchanged since 1913. Random House has a bigger, cleaner type face, includes names of notable places and people in its regular alphabetical word list, throws in such usable extras as a 64-page world atlas and a list of major dates. Most...
Leading performers get terribly emo tional about their instruments (which the manufacturers lend out for concert use in exchange for the prestige that the pianists bring). Glenn Gould always played Steinway's No. 174; when it collapsed some years back, he was thrown into a deep depression. Gary Graffman, Eugene Istomin, Jacob Lateiner and Leon Fleisher at one time all craved Old 199, and they passed it around among themselves so that each could have it for major concerts. Dame Myra Hess used to think of her pianos as so many husbands, once cabled Steinway...
Early one morning last week, Lyle Nelson, Stanford's director of university relations, flew into Washington's Na tional Airport, and immediately conferred with his friend Charles Forbes, a lawyer who represents California's asso ciation of independent colleges and universities. Together, they went up to Capitol Hill for a quiet chat with one of California Senator Thomas Kuchel's aides. Later Nelson talked by telephone with one of the state's Congressmen, J. Arthur Younger. After lunching with a well-connected Stanford alumnus in Washington, Nelson boarded another plane and flew...
Public and press are outspokenly on their side, and last week the prestigious French Conseil de L'Ordre Na tional des Médecins was showing signs of bending to popular pressure. Though the Conseil had first threatened to block the whole operation, it now seems willing to give the SOS doctors official sanction as a registered group. To pleased Parisians, that meant that emergency night medical aid would remain just a phone call away...