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...rusty Crimson linksters don't expect to fare too well in the opener, because March is the peak of the season for the Flaglerians. But, Harvard sophomore and golf veteran Glenn Alexander puts it all in perspective, noting, "Hey, it'll be fun no matter what happens...
Although Nameless opens at 7:30 p.m., the music doesn't start until 8 p.m. Peak hours are between 9 and 11 p.m., but loyal supporters stick around later. And at the end, when the lights go up, everybody gets to help fold chairs. Just like back home...
...economy drifts down, the present extremely strong hunger for consumer, mortgage and corporate credit will also ease, causing interest rates to fall. The prime rate on loans to big companies should move down from a peak of 12½% this spring to 9½% a year from now. The general lessening of demand should make a dent in inflation. TIME'S economists expect consumer prices, which surged 9% last year, to go up 8.3% this year and 6.8% in 1980. That certainly would not amount to victory over inflation, but at least the trend would be favorable...
...Bilandic was inexplicably helpless before the elements and voters, raised on an image of "the city that works," grew increasingly irritated. The incumbent tried advertising with a focus on the good times. His T.V. spots featured the sunny lakefront Chicagofest of last summer, when the Mayor was at the peak of his powers. The challenger showed snow-bound commuters and photos of herself with Daley. Laboring under Byrne's verbal barrage and a charge that one of his aides was improperly awarded a no-bid snow-removal contract, Bilandic played the martyr--an ill-advised ploy in a city like...
APCO maintains that the region needs the Brumley Gap storage as a source of extra power during peak demand periods that lately have overstrained the company's resources. It also claims that the dam, and the pump to shoot water up out of the Holston River into the storage plant, can be built most economically in Poor Valley. These are hard arguments...