Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mark Willes, 38, is the youngest of the Federal Reserve's twelve regional bank presidents. He is also the most independent and outspoken. As chief of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, which oversees the North Central states, Willes has frequently been at odds with the other Fed regional presidents and the Fed's former chairman G. William Miller. A Utah-born Mormon who attended Columbia University, Willes argues that forecasts about the impact of new economic policies are so imprecise that the Fed should resist trying to make constant short-term adjustments by changing the money supply. Instead...
...there is discrimination against everybody." He has fought for the rights of American Nazis to speak and assemble, and successfully defended Actor Harry Reems, the lead in Deep Throat, against obscenity charges. Though a Jew and an ardent Zionist, Dershowitz has criticized Israel for establishing settlements on the West Bank. For that, he says, "my mother really gave me hell...
...Academy Award, and that brought him the part of the Title Character in Oh, God! in 1978. His newest movie, Just You and Me, Kid, places him opposite Brooke Shields, 14. Last week he was on location in Manhattan, where he, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg were playing senescent bank robbers in Going in Style. This fall he will be the deity once again...
Just as successful-if slightly more circumspect-is the Pit Stop Lounge in Coldwater, Mich., some 100 miles west of Detroit. Like the Sugar Shack, this establishment is owned by a woman-a former bank clerk named Glenda Brewer-but here male customers are banned from the club during the two-hour show. What they miss is a group of dancers called Fast Freddy and the Playboys, who strip down to bikini briefs and then swivel through the throng, always staying slightly clad and out of reach. "I think they're terrific," says Kay Love, 45, a factory worker...
...trigger enduring class hatred. But radicals were mistaken about the benignity of Joseph Stalin and the possibilities of domestic Marxism. Their revolution was postponed. Then along came World War II, the postwar boom and millions of house-owning, boat-buying, TV-consuming workers, downtrodden all the way to the bank...