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...great latitude to make their own judgments. "A man can assume his own responsibility here," he says. "I never rub a man's hair in a mistake." Because the firm's response is so fast and sure, many clients who have graduated into the "bankable" class prefer to continue working with Heller...
...Development loans - which Latin America so far has invariably repaid and which Latin Americans overwhelmingly prefer to outright grants - could be stepped up. Washington's loans since the war total $2.5 billion, but currently the Export-Import Bank is cutting sharply and the new Inter-American Development Bank is still in the throes of organization...
...what they consider to be fakes, wherever they find them, all collections would be in jeopardy." A quipster proposed that Selig hang the damaged painting with the label: "Latest work of Morris Graves." But Collector Selig himself was relaxed, wrote Graves a letter: "Your anger was justifiable. I would prefer to leave payment or the choice of replacement of the damaged picture to you. Whatever you decide will be fine with...
...contrast with most specialists in disorders of the digestive tract, who prefer to hide behind polysyllables in writing of their work (e.g., the American Journal of Gastroenterology), the British Medical Association announced that it will soon publish a learned specialty journal entitled simply...
...After two wars I have been in danger too often to bother very much about being killed," Novelist Nevil Shute once wrote, "and when it comes, I would prefer that it should happen in an aeroplane, since aeroplanes have been the best part of my life." Death did not oblige 60-year-old Nevil Shute last week, for it came prosaically in a Melbourne hospital bed, after a stroke. It was an ending the hero of any of Shute's 21 novels would have understood, for each of them faced up dutifully to the enormity of life...