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...state harbors some of the nation's fastest-growing computer companies?Honeywell Inc., Control Data Corp., Univac?along with a diversity of such other corporations as 3M Co., General Mills Inc., Geo. A. Hormel & Co., Pillsbury Co., and Investors Diversified Services Inc., one of the world's largest mutual fund conglomerates. The University of Minnesota, whose alumni and faculty have included seven Nobel laureates, ranks among the nation's best. It helped to develop the Salk vaccine, open-heart surgery, blight-resistant wheat. The Mayo Clinic remains America's secular Lourdes. Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theater displays some of the most...
...ferocious cold from the polar icecap, used to be a comparatively closed-down season, a deep hibernation. Snowmobiles, for better and for worse, have changed that. Many Minnesotans now worry about the ubiquitous high-pitched snarls of snowmobiles churning across the winter landscapes. Still, snowmobiling is the state's fastest-growing sport. Some 340,000 vehicles are licensed...
...stiff price, but shortages are beginning to appear, and business borrowing is declining. Some Chicago banks will make loans only to longstanding corporate customers. A would-be new borrower is out of luck unless it happens to be a giant company. In July mortgage interest rates staged the fastest one-month rise ever and are now as high as 9% where state laws permit. Some S and Ls are raising down-payment requirements from 20% to as much as 33% and making mortgage loans for only 20 years instead of 25 or 30 years, in effect pricing that dream house...
...most widely recognized hazard to participants in the country's fastest-growing sport is epicondylitis, or tennis elbow (TIME, May 14). Now a New York City physician has identified still another threat to tennis players. Writing in the Archives of Dermatology, Dr. Richard C. Gibbs reports that he has been treating an increasing number of players with "tennis toes." The condition is characterized by the discoloration of toenails-usually on the longest toes-which turn bluish-violet. Sometimes they even come off. It is caused, Gibbs says, by hemorrhaging that occurs beneath the toenail when the player stops abruptly...
...This week he faces the man to beat in that department. At a Soviet-American meet in Minsk, Williams runs against Russian Valery Borzov, who captured the gold medal in the 100-meter sprint at the Munich Olympics last year and thus won recognition as "the world's fastest human...