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Seton Hall won the 30-year-old championship with Maryland second. Villanova, the winner last year's IC4A, finished a distant fourth. Harvard scored only four points to finish among the second...
Last year it was food prices. This year soaring electricity bills could be the main focus of consumer outrage. In Maryland, where the Potomac Electric Power Co. is seeking a 22% residential rate increase, bumper stickers proclaim FIGHT THE HIKE, and customers are underpaying bills in protest. To battle a 23% increase proposed by the Virginia Electric & Power Co., local governments are raising a $100,000 legal war chest. Some bitter citizens in North Carolina have threatened" the life of State Utility Commission Chairman Marvin Wooten if Duke Power Co.'s call for a 23% increase is approved. Wooten...
Some banks, too, have to cope with kickback artists on their own payrolls. At a federal hearing last week on a bankruptcy petition he has filed, Joel Kline, a Maryland land speculator, testified that he had paid $25,000 to a loan officer at New York City's Bankers Trust Corp. in exchange for securing lines of credit. The following day the bank revealed that last November it had asked an officer, Stephen Benjamin, to resign for dealings with Kline. The land speculator, who bribed a number of Maryland state officials while Spiro Agnew was Governor, reportedly gave testimony...
...American officer. Her baby girl was sent to live with an aunt in remote Kazakhstan in Central Asia. Although Zoya now declines to dwell on her ordeal, she is well remembered by another ex-inmate of Stalin's prisons and camps, Alexander Dolgun, who now lives in Maryland. A former U.S. embassy clerk who was kidnaped by the Soviet secret police in 1948 and freed only in 1956, Dolgun spent years in the same vast concentration camp as Zoya. "She ended up in Dzhezkazgan, a hard-labor camp for political prisoners in Central Asia," Dolgun told TIME last week...
Five Break-ins. The murder attracted widespread publicity, and soon the Bergen County police received calls from Pennsylvania and Maryland authorities: a man and boy with a virtually identical modus operandi were wanted in those states. In November, in the Philadelphia suburb of Lindenwold, N.J., a man and boy forced their way into a home and tied a housewife to a bed. The man raped her; then the two invaders ransacked the house for jewelry and cash. There was a similar sex-and-robbery crime in early December in Susquehanna Township, Pa. There, a man and boy bound and assaulted...