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Many regional banks like M & T of Buffalo hope to kindle customer loyalty by offering some of the personal touches that most big-city institutions have left behind. In the summer and fall, M & T stages daily concerts and fashion shows in a downtown plaza across from its main office. One M & T teller at a drive-up window hands out dog biscuits to customers with pets in their cars. The bank tries to make elderly customers feel at home by serving coffee and doughnuts and providing low-cost checking accounts with reassuring names like Worry Free...
EASTER 1963. Seven thousand pacifists gather at the United Nations Plaza in New York for the annual Faster Peace Walk, Speeches and signs focus on the rest ban treaty and the recent papal encyclical Pacem in Terris. Scattered through the crowd are signs denouncing American military involvement in Vietnam, but the issue is deemed unworthy of protest. Rally organizers demand that the signs be removed...
...Reagans watched election returns on four television sets in a suite at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. They were driven to the Los Angeles home of Businessman Earle Jorgensen, a longtime friend, for dinner and returned to the Century Plaza for an elaborate victory celebration just as the polls closed...
During the final eight days of the 1984 election campaign, Ronald Reagan met twice with the editors of TIME for exclusive interviews. The first occasion was in the Oval Office, the second in Los Angeles'Century Plaza Hotel on the afternoon of his election victory. At both sessions he was filled with zest and optimism as he talked of where he felt America stood today and what might be achieved in his second term. Excerpts...
...election, members of Nicaragua's neighborhood Sandinista Defense Committees carried that message door to door. Presidential Candidate Ortega stressed the same theme at a mammoth windup campaign rally in Managua, the capital, three days before the balloting. As some 300,000 people filled the huge, newly constructed Plaza of the Heroes and Martyrs on the shore of Lake Managua, Ortega declared, "All Nicaraguans who are Nicaraguans are going to vote...