The Top Ten

Every year Standard & Poor's, in the new edition of its Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, notes the U.S. business leaders who are most active as directors, trustees and advisers to corporations and nonprofit institutions. The top ten for 1966:

> Boston Banker Ralph Lowell, 76, with 43 listings, including Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., Massachusetts Investors Trust, Boston Edison Co., Globe Newspaper Co., Amoskeag Co., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and the United Prison Association.

> Former Insurance Executive George E. Allen, 70, Washington, the longtime self-styled "friend of Presidents," 32.

>Investment Broker Howard Butcher III, 64, Villanova, Pa., 29.

> Executive Irwin Belk, 44, Charlotte, N.C., 28.

> J. Victor Herd, 64, New York, 25.

> Gustave G. Amsterdam, 58, Philadelphia, chairman of the Bankers Securities Corp., 25.

> Lawyer Prescott W. Cookingham, 77, Portland, Ore., 25.

> Edwin C. McDonald, 69, New York, chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada Trust Co., 23.

> Former World Bank President Eugene R. Black, 68, New York, 23.

> Don G. Mitchell, 61, Summit, N.J., chairman of General Time Corp., 22.

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