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...will get $1.6 billion worth of Franklin National's assets. Overnight, EA deposits in the U.S. jumped from $480 million to $1.9 billion. Moreover, it will have its pick of the bank's branch offices and 2,800 employees. Chairman Harry E. Ekblom, 46, a Brooklyn-born lawyer and onetime senior vice president in charge of European operations for Chase Manhattan Bank, promptly made a helicopter visit to Franklin National's Long Island branches. Later, he announced that EA would automatically pick up all Franklin National's consumer installment loans...
...since the days of Rosa Ponselle a half-century ago has the U.S. had as beloved and popular a native operatic soprano as Brooklyn-born Beverly Sills. The Sills phenomenon stems mainly from her unmatched musical and theatrical skills. But it helps that what she has, she flaunts-tirelessly. This season is typical. Sills will give recitals in such cities as Syracuse, Boulder, and Birmingham, Ala. She will also appear as soloist with orchestras in Miami Beach, Houston, and Evansville, Ind., sing Lucia di Lammermoor with opera companies in Milwaukee and Omaha, star at the San Francisco Opera and visit...
...Slugger Willie Stargell announced that "the race doesn't start until September 1." A week before Stargell's target date, the rapidly improving Pirates took over first place. Leading the charge has been Richie Zisk, not exactly a household name among ball fans. Until this year the Brooklyn-born rightfielder was best known as a dreamer. "He'd stand out in the field and think about a movie he'd seen," recalls Pirate Manager Danny Murtaugh. Going into last weekend, the former woolgathering champ was hitting .325, second best in the league. With the Phillies fading...
...strength of such engaging fancies, Brooklyn-born Westlake, 41, a softspoken, owlish ectomorph who resembles most of his protagonists, has slipped into the front rank of popular crime writers. Especially in Hollywood, where his plots seem like readymade movie scenarios-so readymade, in fact, that with Cops and Robbers (1972) Westlake reversed the usual sequence and wrote the movie script first, then turned it into a novel...
...Council staff in 1969 as Henry Kissinger's main economics adviser. Convinced that Kissinger considered economics peripheral to foreign policy, the Brooklyn-born Bergsten bailed out in 1971, later joined the Brookings Institution. A monetary-problems specialist, Bergsten warns that the West faces cartelization in timber, bauxite, rubber and coffee as well as in oil. He also cautions that Kissinger will become an anachronism if he does not pay more heed to economic questions...