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...backward glance at the Winter Season just closed in Buenos Aires reveals that the outstanding event was not the Hoover visit (TIME, Dec. 24), but the sudden and epochal decision of paunchy, prosperous Argentine males to adopt sheer, silk pajamas as their public garb. During previous hot winters-with thermometers more often than not at 98° in the shade - perspiring Argentines merely peeled off their coats, went about in shirtsleeves. This year, however, the policia strictly enforced an ordinance punishing with a fine of one peso (42?) the offense of "appearing in public without a coat." Result: thousands...
Last week came sudden, potent news. The Archbishop announced that he would positively not journey to Jerusalem...
Banking mergers usually proceed through a long period of surmise, rumor and denial until their final announcement is purely a formality. Sudden, unexpected, however, was last-week's announcement that Bank of America N.A. and Bancamerica, its investment company, were to consolidate with the famed private banking house of Blair & Co. Never before in Manhattan* had a commercial bank merged with an investment bank. That Bank of America was contemplating a merger was common knowledge, but that Blair & Co. would constitute the other half of the combination was indeed a surprise...
Last week's figures on the Royal Exchange were all the more significant because they represented a sudden fall of 20 points within a fortnight in the quotations on Conservatives. These 20 points-20 prospective seats in the House of Commons-were subtracted by the brokers on 'Change from a previous Conservative quotation of 292 and were added to the then prevailing Liberal figure of 62. Thus the shrewd merchants of London's "City" showed what they fear will be the effect of Mr. Lloyd George's recent phenomenally daring Liberal keynote speech (TIME, March...
...Came a sudden cloudburst. Roads were washed out. Impossible to move. Black night descended. Fitfully in their busses the travelers dozed. Came, out of South Africa, a noise like distant thunder, then the full-chested, long-drawn reverberant roar of lions in the bush, a sound no lion makes in captivity...