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Operating earnings climbed 13% at BankAmerica Corp. (the Bank of America), 11% at Chemical New York and J. P. Morgan & Co. and 10% at Chase Manhattan and Chicago's Continental Illinois-the Treasury Secretary's old bank. More modest increases were posted by First National City (6%) and Bankers Trust (2%). Some of the smaller banks really soared. Manhattan's Marine Midland Grace increased earnings by 31% to $7.2 million...
...interview with TIME Reporter Jill Krementz. To explore the views of the other America, TIME gathered eight experts for an afternoon's discussion. The eight: Wynn Chamberlain, paint er and producer-director of erotic films; Maurice Girodias, founder-editor of the Olympia Press, which published J. P. Donleavy, William Burroughs, and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita; Sally Kirkland, actress in several erotic and/or nude plays; Jacques Levy, director of Oh! Calcutta!, America Hurrah and Scuba Duba; Charles Rembar, the attorney who successfully defended Lady Chatterley's Lover, Fanny Hill and Tropic of Cancer against obscenity charges; Terry Southern...
...Brevard County homes is so corrosive that Dr. Ben Storey, a general practitioner in Titusville, reports that he finds one new case of ulcers every week in adolescents that he sees. He has even discovered one case in a 2½-year-old child. Considering the strains, Dr. Huey P. Long, a sociologist at Florida State University's Urban Research Center, concludes: "It's a wonder that things in Brevard aren't worse than they...
...growth of Asian textile imports in the 1970s could wipe out the jobs of 600,000 U.S. textile workers, including many undereducated laborers in Southern towns. On the other hand, efficient U.S. textile companies have managed to prosper in spite of import competition. Burlington Industries, Cannon Mills and J. P. Stevens & Co. have steadily increased sales and profits...
Most white Americans will never hear that hip version of the popular Kent jingle, which is sung by a chorus of wailing voices against a background of driving rhythm and blues music. It is beamed only over black radio stations to black audiences. P. Lorillard, the manufacturer of Kent, is one of a growing number of U.S. companies that are making a special effort to woo Negro consumers, who spend an estimated $30 billion a year. In particular, tobacco companies, department stores and cosmetics makers have all found the soul sell an effective conduit to Negro buyers. Because...