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Customers of Bank of America have reason to feel a bit perplexed these days. Giant companies can now borrow from the San Francisco-based lender at a prime rate of 10½%, down from a peak of 21½% at the end of 1980. But the little guy who may need a few thousand dollars for a spring vacation or a home computer is getting no such break from the biggest U.S. bank. He must pay 19% for an unsecured personal loan, off somewhat from last fall's high of 25% but still a towering rate. Similar chasms between...
...sang like a frog and played his ever present ukulele like a hunt-and-peck typist. He talked with his mouth full and tossed aside his script to ad-lib whatever came into his head. He had no talent but folksiness. For Arthur Godfrey, that was enough. At his peak in the 1950s he was, after President Eisenhower, perhaps the best-loved man in America. Godfrey's daily radio show and two weekly TV shows on CBS brought the network as much as 12% of its total revenue. Said CBS Chairman William Paley of Godfrey in his heyday...
...idea seemed as simple as A B C. Republic Airlines introduced a new promotional scheme in January, hoping to lure more passengers during the slow, off-peak season. Under the plan, travelers taking the Minneapolis-based carrier from one smallish city (A) to another (C) via a large hub town like Atlanta (B) before March 30 would earn a free pass for a round trip to any of 63 destinations. The passes are good until June...
...singularly lethal ailment. The survival rate after two years of AIDS: less than 20%. Last week, at New York University Medical Center in Manhattan, 300 doctors gathered to exchange notes on the phenomenon. The bad news: "We are at the horizon of a new epidemic, rather than at the peak," says Dr. James Curran, director of the AIDS task force at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. Half the known cases of AIDS have been diagnosed in the past six months, and the number of new cases has been doubling every eight to twelve months. Says Curran...
...considering the talents that went into the original, how could it be otherwise? Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart were at the peak of their collaboration; George Abbott directed; and George Balanchine did the choreography, most notably the 20-minute jazz ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. Rodgers and Hart are gone, and Balanchine is ill. But Abbott, now 95, has returned to direct one of the liveliest revivals in years...