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French banks and credit-card issuers plan to switch completely to smart cards by 1988. In the U.S., MasterCard will launch the first smart-card experiment this fall by giving out about 100,000 of them in Columbia, Md., and Palm Beach, Fla. If that pilot program goes well, MasterCard may begin national distribution as early...
Those with a keen interest in the development of palm trees would ordinarily be able to take BIOL S-105: Plants of the Tropics, but for some curious reason, the course is bracketed (i.e. offered in 1986, but not this year). Presumably, coconut and pineapple horticulturists will make plans to take the course at summer school next year...
...Eight-year-old Mildred and twelve-year-old Cathie are bathed every two weeks, the one wearing a rubber apron and the other a muslin shift so they cannot see their own bodies. The state of Mildred's thumb tells it all: "Sucked white, (it) was taped to the palm of her hand...
Some new drinking and socializing trends involve no alcohol at all. The "power tea" is starting to catch on with businessmen in big cities. Rather than gathering for whiskey at the cocktail hour, executives are collecting in hotel lobbies from The Breakers in Palm Beach, Fla., to the Mansion in Dallas for decaffeinated Darjeeling and little sandwiches. Businessmen and -women talk deals at Boston's Ritz-Carlton, which offers a variety of teas, steeped in floral china pots. New York City's WaldorfAstoria reinstated tea service just over one year ago. Says Food and Beverage Director Thomas Monetti: "People like...
...Before the Palm Sunday vote, political observers had given the Christian Democrats little chance for a strong showing, certainly not for a majority in the Assembly. That judgment was based on a feeling that Duarte's government somehow had run out of steam. Popular expectations were at a fever pitch last October, when the President held a historic first meeting with leaders of the left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) and its political arm, the Democratic Revolutionary Front (F.D.R.), to discuss ways of ending the war. A second meeting in November led nowhere. The chief reason: Duarte...