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...Celeste finally stepped in and declared a three- day bank holiday for 71 savings and loan associations, probably the most extensive closure of U.S. financial institutions since the Great Depression. In Memphis, board of education officials were anxiously checking their investments. Elsewhere, communities from Beaumont, Texas, to Pompano Beach, Fla., were badly shaken...
...Cities which earned $135.2 million on revenue of $939.7 million last year, has four ABC affiliated television stations in Philadelphai, Houston. New Haven Hartford, Conn., and Buffalo, NY. In addition it owns CBS affiliates in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., and Fresno Calif., and an independent station in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla...
...Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, 84, journalist, author and publisher who created and from 1940 to 1946, except while serving in the Army, ran the innovative New York City minitabloid PM, which carried classy contributors (Ernest Hemingway, Margaret Bourke-White) and no advertising or comics; after a stroke; in Miami Beach, Fla. Contentious and multidimensional, he was the No. 2 editor of The New Yorker (1925-30), managing editor of the young and struggling FORTUNE (1931-35) general manager and vice president of Time Inc. (1935-38) and publisher of TIME (1937-39). After leaving PM, he owned and ran a string...
...Nathan Cummings, 88, contentious Canadian-born businessman who in 1939 took over an ailing Baltimore coffee and tea company and, through both internal growth and acquisitions, transformed it into Consolidated Foods, ranked 49th among FORTUNE 500 companies, whose brands include Sara Lee cakes and Fuller Brush; in Palm Beach, Fla...
...Angeles attorney who represents management in employment cases. Nonetheless, the climate that nurtured affirmative action has begun to cool perceptibly. "Most companies in the private sector are providing no more than lip service to affirmative action," says Milton Vickers, director of minority business development for Dade County, Fla. "There has been little monitoring for the past four or five years, and you can tell...