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...husband," Erma Bombeck cheerily told a visitor last week, "works as a supervisor of social studies for secondary schools, and if you have a space between your teeth that's hard to say." Syndicated Columnist Erma has a big space between her own front teeth. She also has, by her description, "fat calves, unmanicured hands, makeupless eyes" and is "overweight, overworked, over-childrened and underpatienced." But one thing is clearly going for her: irresistible humor about the trials of being a housewife...
...only other breaks in her routine are visits to her father, her brother Cecil ?now assistant pastor of the New Bethel Church?or sister Carolyn, 23, who leads Aretha's accompanying vocal trio and writes songs for her. Another sister, Erma, 29, is a pop singer living in New York City. Sometimes, with her family, she opens up enough to put on her W. C. Fields voice or do her imitation of Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula ("Goodt eeeeeevnink, Mr. Renfieldt; I've been expectink you!"). But Cecil says: "For the last few years Aretha is simply not Aretha...
...crowd of 10,000 looked on, General Abdul Haris Nasution, Defense Minister and Commander of the Army, hobbled forward on crutches, supported by two aides. Nasution had been a prime target of the assassins and had broken an ankle in his escape. His five-year-old daughter Erma was shot and killed. "We living witnesses know that you were upholding truth and justice," said Nasution, addressing the dead. "In our heart you are the heroes. We believe that the truth will...
...Boost from the Fed. Looking ahead, Beise hopes to realize one of banking's cherished dreams: to abolish the paycheck. By teaming up IBM 7070s with ERMA, he plans to credit his bank employees' wages directly to their accounts, hopes the scheme will appeal to other companies for which his bank handles the payroll. Asks Beise: "Instead of printing checks for a company, which the employee has to deposit, why not print deposit slips...
Dozens of other U.S. banks are beginning to automate. Chase Manhattan, the nation's second largest commercial bank, will soon automate its check-processing procedure, expects to save 20% on clerical costs. Chicago's Merchandise National Bank will start phasing in a duplicate of the ERMA system by next spring. Milwaukee's First Wisconsin National Bank is installing an advanced check encoder that in one operation imprints the checks with all the data needed to process them through an ERMA system...