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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Passages, Sheeny (1) 2Roots, Haley (2) 3-The Right and the Power, Jaworski (4) 4-Your Erroneous Zones, Dyer (3) 5-Adolf Hitler, To/and (5) 6-The Grass ,ls Always Greener Over the Septic Tank, Bombeclc (6) 7-Blind Ambition, Dean 8 - Blood and Money, Thompson (7) 9-The Final Days, Woodward & Bernstein (9) 10-Fire and Ice, Tobias...
Emergency Session. One hole is that a handful of states (Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, North Carolina and Ohio) allow state-chartered S & Ls to choose federal insurance, private insurance-or even no insurance. In Mississippi, eight S&Ls are uninsured; another 32 institutions doing about one-third of the S&L business in the state carry private insurance, most of it written by American Savings Insurance Co. The trouble began in early May, when two stockholders filed suit against the state's second largest S&L, the 47-branch Bankers Trust (which has no relation to the well-known...
...then dawned on savers in other S & Ls that Bankers Trust not only was insured by, but owned 45% of American Savings. Heavy withdrawals began in the other nonfederally insured S & Ls, and by late June had developed into a full-fledged run on deposits. After conferring with Treasury Secretary William Simon, Mississippi Governor Charles ("Cliff') Finch proposed legislation freezing most business-no withdrawals, no loans-at the nonfederally insured S & Ls. The legislature hustled the bill through in its first emergency session since Hurricane Camille devastated the Gulf Coast...
...days before the lawsuit was filed against Bankers Trust, and now worry that if they cannot tap their savings accounts, their Social Security income will not be enough to cover notes coming due on the house. Mississippi banks have offered to consider loans to stranded depositors in the S&Ls, but the Fowlers are not reassured. Says the despondent Mr. Fowler: "We have worked and saved and done without so we could be independent in our old age -but what good does...
...this feistiest of Fourths, it will not be Oh, Say Can You See? in New York harbor. There the longest, widest, heaviest, starriest national banner ever lofted will spread amaze amid the tops'ls of tall ships and raise the first gulp of the day. Hung athwart the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and visible far at sea, the superflag measures 193 ft. by 366 ½ ft., bigger by half than a football field, weighs 1 ½ tons and is constructed like a sail to weather all winds. It was Betsy Rossed in the loft of Marblehead, Mass., Yachtsman-Sailmaker...