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...Citicorp and Chase Manhattan more willing to take the chance. Indeed, U.S. banks generally grew healthier in 1985 as they emerged from a two-year crisis of confidence among investors and depositors. Some other U.S. banks, though, had a tumultuous year. More than 115 failed during 1985, the highest number since the Great Depression. Most were small ones buried under a pile of failed farm loans...
...Edward R. Murrow. The man who brought the Nazi blitz into American living rooms with his memorable radio reports ("This ... is London") went on to become the most admired newsman of television's first decade. With his brooding brow, sonorous voice and ever present cigarette, Murrow personified the highest standards of journalism for millions. His CBS documentaries on the McCarthy witch hunts and the plight of migrant farm workers are classics of impassioned TV reportage. A movie about this legendary figure would seem an overdue tribute...
...decision has stirred a legal tempest. Harriet Cohen, president of the New York Women's Bar Association, calls it "a major victory for justice and fair play." Philadelphia Lawyer Edward Blumstein disagrees. "The highest court in New York," he says, "has created a legal fiction." In fact, the New York decision is not unique; 13 other states, by statute or court ruling, recognize a spousal property interest in a professional degree. But, asks Harry Tindall, chairman of the family-law section of the state bar of Texas, "if a college professor has tenure, how do you quantify that? Will...
...Galilee, have wanted to make pictures since they were teenagers. Golan, the elder partner, devoted much of his time to the movies, watching his screen idols, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart and Charlie Chaplin. He spent the '50s working in the theater, and though he became Israel's highest-paid director, he now regards the time as wasted; it kept him from his true love, the movies...
...Carter. In 1984 Reagan received a mere 9% of the black vote against Walter Mondale. Yet last week a New York Times/CBS News Poll showed that a startling 56% of the blacks interviewed approved of the way the President was handling his job. Overall, the poll gave Reagan the highest approval of his presidency...