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...based. Social Credit has been fortunate enough to add a strong rural Quebec-oriented wing to the party, for the Western French have been especially cool to Caouette, claiming that he has no understanding of the French situation on the Prairies, and accusing him of trying to stir up Anglo-French trouble where it does not exist. The NDP spread the 19 seats it won in the last election over only three provinces, and 16 of their victories were in Ontario and British Columbia. Their support is limited to regional pockets, mainly of an urban-industrial nature. The intensified urban...
...investments. But nothing wins over the flinty-eyed treasurer like a better interest rate. "It's fantastic what some of them will do for a one-hundredth of one percent pickup in interest," says a Los Angeles banker. Adds President Emmett Solomon of San Francisco's Crocker-Anglo Bank: "The corporate treasurer is in the driver's seat...
Appeals Endured. Harry Oppenheimer is the wealthiest and mightiest businessman in Africa. Besides his global hold over diamonds, Oppenheimer, through the Anglo American Corp. (of which he is also chairman), controls or holds substantial interests in a $2.4 billion empire of 150 gold, copper, uranium, coal, chemical, explosives and banking companies. A member of South Africa's Parliament for ten years, he left politics to run the business after his father's death in 1957. Because he controls South Africa's chief source of foreign exchange, and is a man with an international reputation, the nationalist government...
...feared that the honor might later be passed out like green stamps. But the states may do the job piecemeal. Nebraska's legislature made Sir Winston a state citizen last week; Tennessee is about to do so this week. The man who once described himself as a living Anglo-American alliance already has scads of transatlantic ties, from honorary citizenship in the city of Jacksonville, Fla., to life membership in the Friendship Veterans Fire Engine Co. of Alexandria, Va. Yet Sir Winston is an honorary citizen (since 1941) of only one country-to wit, Cuba...
Author Rao's credentials are impressive. André Malraux sought him out as a cicerone for a tour of India; Lawrence Durrell has pronounced The Serpent a work "by which an age can measure itself"; and E. M. Forster, whose Passage to India remains the classic of Anglo-Indian intellectual commerce, has praised Rao's Kan-thapura (not yet published in the U.S.) as perhaps the best novel in English to come out of India...