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Bankers believe that financial services will eventually be part of futuristic home information packages like Viewtron that supply everything from recipes to movie reviews. Therefore they are scrambling to organize joint ventures with communications firms. Four aggressive regional banks, Florida's Southeast, Ohio's Bane One, North Carolina's Wachovia and California's Security Pacific, have banded together to develop the financial services for Viewtron. Next spring some 20 institutions, including Milwaukee's First Wisconsin National Bank and Seattle's Peoples Bank, will team up with Automatic Data Processing and the Times Mirror communications...
...converse situation--when Harvard's passing against Dartmouth--the matchup won't be so thrilling. Troubles with the air attack--particularly concerning the buttery texture of several receivers' fingers--have been the bane of the Crimson offense. None of quarterback Chuck Colombo's five first-half passes against Cornell were caught last week: replacement Brian White, six-for-13, finally moved Harvard through the air in the last-minute rally that gained a 3-3 tie. Though the decision may have been tougher than usual, Crimson Coach Joe Restic decided to stick with the senior, Colombo, as his starter...
Domestic violence is lethal, and not only to women. A 1978 article in Police Magazine reports that 40% of all police injuries, and 20% of all police deaths on duty, are the result of becoming caught in a family dispute. Risks aside, answering domestic-disturbance calls is the bane of policemen everywhere. "We end it for an hour or two and do a lot of paper work," says Officer Lawrence Santos of Harlem's 25th Precinct. To a frightened woman, though, even a reluctant policeman offers more hope than an insensitive one. Sergeant Louis Mancuso of Manhattan's Ninth Precinct...
...seemed to be heading higher. The Government reported that July unemployment had tumbled to an annual rate of 9.5%, the lowest level in 13 months. That news, however welcome, is likely to mean a rising demand for credit as newly employed workers head for the stores. In another development, Bane-Texas Group, a Dallas-based holding company with 14 member banks, raised its prime rate to 11% from 10½%. Some experts believe that major banks have delayed similar moves for weeks to avoid jeopardizing a proposed $8.1 billion increase in U.S. assistance to the International Monetary Fund. The House...
Such feats are all in a week's work for the two Senators and eleven Congressmen from Massachusetts. The close-knit, mostly liberal delegation is the bane of President Reagan on Capitol Hill. After Reagan nominated Kenneth Adelman to direct the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Massachusetts Democratic Senator Paul Tsongas provocatively suggested that Adelman's defeat would be "the Senate's equivalent of a nuclear freeze." The freeze movement was spearheaded in the Senate by Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy and in the House by Markey. And after Reagan denounced public service jobs as "make work" programs...