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...bank credit cards pay their bills within 25 days and thus escape the interest charges equal to 18% a year that banks levy on cardholders who pay their accounts more slowly. Last May, however, Manhattan's Citibank began imposing a fee of 500 a month on the prompt payers. Bank officials protested that they were losing money handling the quickly settled accounts. Be that as it may, the charge marks a vaguely Orwellian first: customers now have to pay for the privilege of not using extended credit...
...importing foreign oil-and the U.S. is now getting a record 44% of its petroleum from abroad. The Federal Power Commission last year allowed the top price of natural gas piped across state lines to jump from 52? per 1,000 cu. ft. to $1.44, in an effort to prompt more production. The Emergency Natural Gas Act passed this month permits gas-short areas to buy from surplus areas at uncontrolled prices, and Eastern utilities are paying as much as $2.76 for gas piped in from California...
Courtside and poolside were both emotionally charged. While the individual nature of swimming prompted personal responses to success and failure, the hoopsters reacted en masse. If a swimmer's time was abnormally slow, dejection and a determination to do better would show visibly on her face, while a new personal-best time might prompt an athlete to swim extra laps with seemingly endless energy. A euphoric basketball squad would rush onto the hardwood and mob each other with embraces when victorious, but when defeated the team would walk somberly to their locker room, grab a Coke and a pretzel...
...Though prompt application of new flexible splints and pressure bandages lessens scars and skin contractures, burn victims are often left with disfiguring features that even the best plastic surgeons cannot eliminate. Says In-Service Education Director Carol Fulton of Boston Shriners: "They don't go home like Cinderella and live happily ever after." To prepare patients for re-entry into the outside world, many burn centers have added psychiatrists, psychologists and other therapists to their staffs...
...Prompt reopening of the stalled negotiations with Panama and a clear explanation to the American people of the "highest priority" for a "new and equitable treaty" on control of the canal. Viewing it as "no longer vital," the commission favors an agreement yielding full jurisdiction of the zone to Panama...