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...respect for the current Soviet captain's pushing ability. Says Hilder: "He's a hell of a big bear of a man, barechested, and wears a white cloth to shade his head from the sun. And he's got a ship that can turn on a dime...
...countless emergencies, the pay telephone is the one way to reach help. But the pay phone is mute and deaf until it has been fed its dime. To clear the line, Southern New England Telephone Co. is converting its pay telephones in Hartford so that the caller can get the operator without a coin...
...presidential shrine, which is just a mile from the present L.B.J. ranch: a china-doll clown that was a Christmas present to an aunt from little Lyndon, then four. "He proudly handed it over," burbled a White House press release, "telling her delightedly that it cost a dime and was worth every cent...
...supports Detroit civic organizations and the Salvation Army as well as higher education and hospitals all over the world. Dedicating Kresge Hall at Harvard Business School when he was 85, S. S. gave one of the tautest ribbon-cutting speeches on record. He simply said: "I never made a dime talking." Then, as he did last week, one of the last of the dime-store magnates gracefully stepped down...
Bucking other savings institutions, New York's Dime Savings Bank boosted its basic rates from 4½% to 5% , the city's highest passbook rate. That's gravy for savers, but borrowers stand to get their lumps. Manhattan commercial bankers are saying that it is high time for another increase in the "prime rate," now 5½% , from which all borrowing rates are scaled upward...