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...plan works this way: a customer opens a special account at a savings bank with, say, a minimum deposit of $100 and gets a book of payment orders. When he wants to pay a bill, he simply writes out an order as he would a check. Only narrow technicalities distinguish these accounts from checking accounts. One of them: savings banks cannot offer overdraft privileges on payment accounts...
Former Fire-Eater. The city of Oakland is another irritant for the A's. For a town that has long looked for some characteristic to distinguish it from San Francisco across the bay, Oakland has been slow to seize on the distinction of the A's. Attendance at games in the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, a modern ballpark situated only a few minutes' drive from downtown Oakland (pop. 361,561), averages a meager 6,400 per game. And many of the fans who do show up come from communities half a day's drive away. Annoyed...
...Intimacy Outside Marriage"), McLaughlin turned to politics in 1970. He became a Republican, ran for the U.S. Senate from Rhode Island (John Pastore retained the seat), and then in 1971 went to work as a speechwriter on the White House staff at a salary of about $30,000. To distinguish between his sacerdotal and political roles, he abandoned the Roman collar ("a one-inch piece of plastic") except for church events. Last week McLaughlin's superior, the Very Rev. Richard Cleary, Jesuit provincial of New England, issued a statement dissociating the Society of Jesus from McLaughlin's views...
...form. Coleman's earnest, nearlaughable effort to play the role to its hilt--munching the very last of the grits at the oh-so blue-collar diner, mouthing the curse-words he once choked on in front of his students--bespeaks his own faith that only these outward circumstances distinguish the working...
Reasoning that keeping the skin in culture had somehow washed off its antigens (surface proteins that enable the body to distinguish its own cells from foreign material), Summerlin moved to the University of Minnesota to continue his work under Immunologist Robert Good (TIME cover, March 19, 1973). In 1972 he reported that he had succeeded in grafting white skin onto black mice and black skin onto white animals. Last year he told the American Society for Clinical Investigation that he had crossed species barriers and grafted skin from humans, guinea pigs and pigs onto mice...