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...store in the Wichita newspapers was arresting, topped by photographs of the anchormen from the evening news programs of the three major networks. The point was, of course, that the nightly fare of dismal national economic news so far means little to Kansas' largest city, where unemployment is only half the U.S. average and industry is still healthy (TIME...
...Thomas R. Bomar's proposal, variable rates could go up no more than 2.5% over the life of a mortgage and no more than .5% each six months; a .5% increase would amount to about $12.50 per month on a $30,000 loan. Last month two of the largest California S and Ls, which are non-chartered and thus not subject to the bank board, abandoned fixed rates and moved exclusively to VIR. As an inducement, one is guaranteeing no rate increases for a year...
...Center Social Democratic Party (C.D.S.) is the largest conservative group, with strong links to Portugal's old mercantile class, and a prime target of the radical left, which sees it as a front for "fascist reactionaries." The party derives its support largely from Lisbon businessmen and small farmers in the conservative north; it advocates free enterprise, backs NATO and closer ties with the Common Market...
...citizens to challenge most personal data in Government computers. The A.C.L.U. also has a major case on the rights of mental patients now before the Supreme Court. On top of all that, there is the $12 million it won last month for 1,200 May Day antiwar demonstrators-the largest civil liberty damage award ever...
...provender is grotesquely more substantial. Bobby Fischer and Anatoly Karpov, the 23-year-old Russian challenger for the World Chess Championship, have been invited by the Philippine Islands to meet in Manila on June 1 and push little wooden soldiers round a checkered board for the second largest stakes in the history of sport-$5 million...