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...private citizen but also a leading expert on Japan, and so MacArthur asked Reischauer to drop by the embassy. The two men talked for hours, and Reischauer issued a mild apology. Less than a year later, he sat at the other side of the ambassadorial desk in Mac Arthur's place (MacArthur is now U.S. Ambassador to Belgium). Reischauer had been halfway through a new book on Asian history "when this appointment hit me." As a longtime critic of U.S. Asian policy, he now had the critic's rare opportunity-to show that he could do better himself...
...collie named King, was removed by Patrolmen Walter Sheehan and Kenneth Beucler and returned to his master, Norman Mac-Askill, of 202 River St., Cambridge...
During his early years in New York, Little Mac, who always pointed out that he was a Democrat in Wall Street, did big things for Amex. When he took over it was still the lowly Curb Exchange. McCormick changed its name to the more resounding American Stock Exchange and set out with notable success to sell more companies on listing their stock. In his decade as president, daily share volume grew from an average 450,000 to 1,900.000, and the value of a seat on the Little Board skipped from...
...Grumblers. But while McCormick was writing the Amex success story, a chorus of grumbles was beginning to rise from members who complained that things were run too loosely. Little Mac. they said, liked the Stork Club and the excitement of bringing new companies to the board much better than the tedium of tending to the growing administrative problems of the big exchange he was creating...
...have taken a less stern view of his peccadilloes. But when the SEC investigations get into full swing early next year, the governors of the American Stock Exchange will have all they can do to defend their exchange as an institution, without having to make the case for Little Mac as well...