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...Bank of Tokyo of California recently started its eighth and ninth branches. In Manhattan, the international banking center, the British have opened four major branches, the Swiss three, the French and Israelis two each, and the Italians, Dutch, Lebanese and Pakistanis one apiece. Last month Brazil's Banco da Lavoura de Minas Gerais opened up in Manhattan, and last week the Bank of Tokyo Trust Co. opened newly expanded offices as kimono-clad Japanese girls served raw fish and Suntory whisky to customers...
...case came to trial. Whether he was killed in a fair fight, murdered by his dishonored wife, or done in by his own hand, depends on which of the protagonists' testimonies can be believed. One of the trio gathered at the depot is a thieving old prospector (Howard Da Silva), who finally admits that he was an eyewitness to the crime but claims that none of the stories told at the trial were wholly true...
...PETER BLAKE, 32, insists that painting should be pleasing to non-cognoscenti. To Blake's delight, his The Da Vinci Brothers was bought by a professional soccer player. "What I'm doing becomes a folk art," he says. For ten years, since he first enrolled at the Royal College of Art, he has filled his paintings with medals, badges, fancy lettering, pinups, comic strips (he incorporated one in a 1957 painting), athletes,, pop singers from Elvis to the Beatles. Unlike U.S. pop artists, whom he believes (incorrectly) to be harsh satirists, Blake packs his pictures with instant memorabilia...
...Secret Invasion. "Achtung!" One misty midnight in the fall of 1943, the glare of a flare illuminates a tiny trawler wallowing off the coast of Yugoslavia. "Wer geht da?" the captain of a German patrol boat bellows in his bullhorn...
...cops are helpless, always patrol in groups and only during daylight. Except one. For the past 25 years, favela law, or what there was of it, largely rested on City Detective Perpétuo de Freitas da Silva...