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...prohibited from doing retail business outside their home state. Such rules would be similar to decreeing that General Motors could only sell cars in Michigan or that Pillsbury could only market cake mixes in Minnesota. This week, however, banks will get some overdue good news: the Carter Administration will recommend to Congress that commercial banks be allowed to open branches outside their home state. Though no one expects longstanding laws to be rewritten quickly, the new proposal, contained in a report prepared by the White House staff, adds momentum to the movement for a nationwide banking system...
Happily, the authors of Energy and Security are more than doomsayers predicting an oil-based global cataclysm. In detailing how current energy tactics have actually exacerbated U.S. vulnerability to oil cut-offs, they recommend sweeping changes aimed at preventing and easing future energy shortfalls. Some proposals are more complex or expensive than the authors acknowledge, but they also seem great improvements over current backfiring U.S. strategies...
...years ago was denied his wish to send an uncensored Christmas message to his home archdiocese-was accorded twelve minutes on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to address his countrymen in a taped television spot. Said the Pontiff: "I pray with you for our common fatherland. I recommend to Christ and to his Mother all that has happened in Poland in the past months and, above all, this unity of peace and mutual respect and understanding...
...program offered to 6 million of their subscribers, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Greater New York provide patients whose own doctors recommend operations with the names of three surgeons from whom a second opinion may be sought; the one chosen by the patient receives a $50 fee. Surveying the first 1,500 patients taking advantage of the program, Blue Cross found that in 70% of the cases, the second doctor affirmed the need for the operation. In the remaining 30% of the cases, moreover, only about half the patients were told they did not need surgery...
...attend Wellesley as transfer students--a situation that was humorously described in Esquire earlier this year by a man who said that he had been amorously pursued by scads of sexually-starved Wellesley women during his year out there. Discussing this article, junior Tracy Trippe says, "I would never recommend that a man do the exchange; the women just treat the guys very badly. Their whole attitude towards them is just one of 'Are you just here...