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Last week two of Spain's Big Five banks planned a merger that would help gear Spanish banking to the heavy demands ahead. It would meld Spain's biggest commercial bank, the Banco Hispano Americano (capitalization $19.6 million, reserves $47.2 million), with the Banco Central (capitalization $13.3 million, reserves $33.3 million). With these combined resources and 805 branches, the new bank would rank sixth in Europe...
...mystical appeal" [Nov. 5]. If you equate mysticism with pure unadulterated pleasure and appreciation of driving the finest of its kind, you are right. Until you sit in the cockpit of this little giant killer and push the tach up to 5,500 r.p.m. in second or third gear, not to mention fourth, you will never know how delightfully sensuous driving...
Porsche pulls in as much as $10 million a year from the licenses (mostly for its patented synchromesh gear box) that it sells to such automakers as Italy's Ferrari and Germany's BMW. Its closest ties are still with Volkswagen. Besides a royalty of 250 for every Volkswagen that rolls off the assembly line, Porsche reaps from VW an additional research-and-development...
...defensive secondary's is that the defensive line plays a pursuing rather than charging type of game in order to gear against opponent's running game. This means that the opposing backs will have a harder time picking holes in the Crimson line, but that the quarterback will have more leisure to release his passes...
...each, a small-scale Mississippi paddle-wheeler for $7,500, or a connoisseur's collection of African voodoo drums and five-foot spears? Answer: at the New York World's Fair, where the greatest sale of surplus goods since the big postwar auctions of military gear is about to take place. As the Oct. 17 closing date approaches, the selloff by the Fair's 300 exhibitors is beginning in earnest...