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Harvard jumped ahead in the bottom of the first, as Terrier infielders mangled their first two chances resulting in a pronto pair of runs...
...painting by the famed Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes. Christie's, the London auction house, expects Goya's Marquesa to fetch a record price of more than $10 million when it is auctioned on April 11. But the Spanish government wants it back pronto...
...depositors weary of long lines or inconvenienced by traditional bankers' hours, home banking should have an irresistible appeal. But even those Americans who already own home computers and modems have been holding back. Two years and $20 million after New York's Chemical Bank launched its Pronto service, for example, only 21,000 of its 1.15 million customers are using it. And even as new banks come on-line, a handful (including San Francisco's Crocker National, Los Angeles' First Interstate and Miami's Dadeland Bank) have quietly discontinued their electronic services. "It's slow going," admits Paul Ayres...
...systems. Robert McDermott, who runs a construction service company, keeps five different accounts at Chemical Bank, including his money-market and retirement funds. "It makes juggling accounts more manageable," he says. "You can be more daring." Kathryn Dallam, a secretary at IBM, rationalizes the $12 monthly cost of her Pronto service, claiming that home banking saves her $20 a month in stamps, envelopes and transportation costs. And Investment Banker Stodder blames himself, not the system, for electronically sending his cleaner $580 instead of the $55 for which he was billed. Says he: "I'm just letting it ride by sending...
Chemical Bank last month began advertising its new Pronto system. With a TV set, an Atari 400 home computer (cost: about $60) and a modem ($75) to connect the terminal via a telephone line to the bank's computers, Pronto will do nearly every banking chore except dispense cash. Patrons can check their balances 24 hours a day, transfer money from one account to another, keep records on five separate budgets for such expenses as travel or household bills, and pay bills to about 350 companies ranging from Bloomingdale's to American Express. If the customers have...