Word: calif
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From his home in Mill Valley, Calif., anytime between 6 a.m. and midnight, Attorney Gregory Dyer can use his personal computer to check his balance at BankAmerica and transfer money between accounts. With his lap computer, Larry Lape, a business executive, does much of his personal banking from hotel rooms ; hundreds of miles away from his hometown Huntington National Bank in Columbus. Without leaving his home, Page Stodder, a Cleveland investment banker, can use his PC to pay bills from 82 different companies. Says Stodder: "It's faster than writing checks, putting stamps on envelopes and taking them...
DIED. J.E. Wallace Sterling, 78, aggressively growth-minded fifth president of Stanford University from 1949 to 1968 who raised its national ranking from 15th to third in number of top-rated graduate programs; of cancer; in Woodside, Calif. A historian at the California Institute of Technology who was a regular cbs radio news commentator in the 1940s, Sterling became Stanford's major modern builder, heading record-shattering fund drives ($300 million in 1972-77), increasing operating expenditures from $10 million annually to $108 million, expanding the faculty by 170% and the student body...
Thomas Murry, 58, Newbury Park, Calif., field service engineer for Northrop Corp. When the hijackers forced everybody into the crash position (head between knees), the 6-ft. 4-in. Murry had trouble. "I was hit on the back of the head three times because the hijacker didn't feel my head was low enough." He and seven others wound up in an apartment isolated from the rest, and called themselves "the Crazy Eights" because of their number and the name of the card game they played endlessly...
Whatever is doing it, Americans are ready to sing along. Three times a week, young patrons let loose to hot backgrounds at Carlos Murphy's, a restaurant in La Jolla, Calif., where technicians enhance the performances by projecting singers' images on a giant video screen and playing applause tapes afterward. "If the sing-along machine were put in every nightclub, it would cut into psychiatrists' business by 50%," says Ed Masterson, who produces the club's sing-out. "It's a tremendous release. You become someone important, even if it's only for a night." And for an encore...
...reduce the illegal traffic. Despite its length, much of the U.S.-Mexican border is blocked by huge expanses of desert and mountainous terrain. The bulk of illegal traffic centers on only about seven crossings; an estimated 60% of all illegals enter the U.S. near the cities of Chula Vista, Calif., and El Paso, Texas. Says INS Commissioner Nelson: "There will always be some illegal immigration. But we can and must enhance control of the border...