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...match her present job. Their decision: to remain in Boston. Having diligently worked up to assistant vice president at Bank of America's home office in San Francisco, Richard Easley, 33, was offered a reward: the No. 2 spot in a big Bank of America branch in San Mateo, only 20 miles away. Dreading commuting and unwilling to relocate his family, Easley simply decided that he did not, under those conditions, desire the promotion...
Stutterers speak well of the new organization. Says John Albach, clerk at a San Mateo bookstore: "I've been much more fluent since I joined the project. To become part of a national group, it's just very self-enhancing." Still, the ridicule goes on. A few days ago, Albach began stammering while quoting the price of a book; to the customers, it sounded as if it cost hundreds of dollars. "These kids had a good time laughing and mimicking me," says Albach. "Afterwards you think of all the things you could have said, but then...
...first message was found last February on the windshield of his abandoned car: "I'm a rich man." That he was, emphatically. Richard Charles Rees had just walked off his job in San Mateo, Calif, as a guard on a Brinks armored car, and he had $516,305 in a champagne case tucked under his arm. Last week, after eleven months on the lam, Rees, 27, was under the strong arm of the law. FBI agents finally caught up with him in the tiny New Mexico town of Villanueva (pop. 300). His cash supply: just...
...Mateo, Calif...
...Hearsts visit Patty three or four times a week, and friends say their encounters-strained and formal at first-have warmed considerably. Patty's lawyers report she was scared and aloof when she arrived at San Mateo County jail, 25 miles from the courthouse, but Sheriff John McDonald Jr. says she fell quickly into the prison's routine. "Her attitude hasn't changed," says McDonald. "She's still calm, cool and collected." She has also been suffering from menstrual problems, eats only lightly, and has dropped from...