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...item about the two portraits of President Nixon [PEOPLE, Dec. 10] left an impression that was unfair to one of the artists. It is not true that the former President "never did like" the painting by Alexander Clayton. When J. Anthony Wills' canvas was completed, the Nixons decided to designate it the White House portrait and to earmark Mr. Clayton's for the library now planned at San Clemente...
Stores are paying more attention than ever to light-fingered crime. Spending for antitheft devices has gone up about 18% in the past year. The most popular anti-crime item is a plastic tag about the size of a pocket comb that stores are putting on everything from dresses to fur coats. The tags, which can be conveniently removed only by a special tool, set off an alarm when they pass through a sensing device that is usually located at exits. Criminals frequently try to cover up the tags with aluminum foil to fool the detection machines, or even bite...
...major item in the current wave of interest is the finely wrought new biography by Michael Mott, The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton (Houghton Mifflin; 690 pages; $24.95). A professor of creative writing at Ohio's Bowling Green State University, Mott, 54, succeeded the late John Howard Griffin (Black Like Me), the original biographer named by Merton's literary executors. The author provides some fresh details about the 30 years that Merton treated in Seven Storey Mountain, but the book's most fascinating contribution involves the second half of Merton's life. The executors gave Mott...
Luckily for Richard N. Frye, Aga Khan Professor of Iranian the item has not been removed from the meeting's agenda...
Rising fees are only one item on the consumer grievance list. Another complaint is banking's continued use of the float on checks. While this is an old banking practice, it seems particularly irritating at a time when modern communications make it possible for banks to transfer funds around the world in a matter of seconds. Money deposited as checks can often be used by the customers only after holding periods that may range from two days to three weeks. During that hiatus, the bank has, in effect, impounded the money since it receives credit for the check...