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...scion of an Atlanta banking family and protégé of Family Friend Clark. But Amexco has largely saturated the market for high-income holders of credit cards, and competitor Visa and some major banks are also trying to sell their own traveler's checks. Earnings from Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., acquired by Amexco in 1968, are large (48% of the company's profits) but cyclical. Amexco stands to get a much higher profit by investing its pile of cash in a capital-intensive business like publishing instead of in securities. The company could sell...
...killed because he had become such a prominent political spokesman for gays. The man charged with killing the other two was not some wild-eyed lunatic but an ex-member of the board of supervisors, Daniel James White, 32. White was a clean-cut former police officer and fireman, who was described by most acquaintances as a handsome, athletic, ever-achieving all-American boy. "If he had been a breakfast cereal," said one acquaintance, "he would have had to be Wheaties...
...unstable," said former Supervisor Terry François. "Just a normal young father," added another acquaintance. Intensely competitive, White had been captain of both the baseball and football teams and a Golden Gloves boxer while attending San Francisco's Woodrow Wilson High School. Son of a San Francisco fireman, he served in Viet Nam, then worked 3½ years as a policeman. He somehow managed to buy first an $8,000 Jaguar, then a $15,000 Porsche, before taking a leave of absence to hitchhike through the U.S. After joining the fire department in 1973, he was cited...
...base"..."Someone on the corner of Harvard and Mass was seen making a Molotov cocktail"...'Where did you get this from, Car 4?"..."A fireman at the barn"...Three cruisers show up--two regular, one undercover. No person to be found. No Molotov...
...peppery performances stand out. Matt Landers delivers a rousing soliloquy about how he quit a bank job because it was unreal and stopped being a cop when he began to hate people. As a fireman, he salvaged dignity and purpose in saving lives. Playing a call girl, Patti Lu-Pone displays a languid, undeluded cynicism that stingingly implies that the U.S. may be a nation of hustlers...