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Since then, C & S has grown to be almost twice the size of First National, as Lane increased its branches from 13 to 61 while steadily expanding its services. C & S was a pioneer in converting to data processing and introducing freight-bill payment services, under which the bank pays the shipping bills of its customers directly out of their accounts. C & S also moved headlong into travel services, now ranks as one of the South's largest travel agencies. One of the first major banks to issue its own credit card, C & S was first to offer...
Tutorial and the House system are supposed to countervail the size and impersonality of the University with a degree of personal contact and intimacy. The Houses, now with an average population of 400 students, two-thirds more than the number originally intended, have become little more than overcrowded dormitories; there is no excuse for such waste of what might have been Harvard's most attractive feature...
...Marine battalion commander at Camp Pendleton, Calif., has posted wall-size copies in his unit's barracks "as an inspiration to our troops," and residents of Shreveport, La., are thinking of having bumper stickers made up along similar lines. As for Donnelly, it is planning to start pasting them on its own billboards this week, and the agency's John Donnelly Jr. knows exactly where he wants the first one to go: Harvard Square...
...coming young players, hundreds of whom languished in the minors, waiting for somebody to retire or be sent down so they could get their crack at the N.H.L. Finally, the league owners relented, and this year there are not one, not two, but six new franchises-doubling the size of the majors in a single stroke...
Rivals by Invitation. Shopping-center growth is now concentrated among ever larger "regional centers" dominated by two or more major department stores. "Six or eight years ago, 40 stores made a good-size center," says Detroit Developer Alfred Taubman. "Today, we want a minimum of 80 stores and average from 125 to 150." That puts a premium on compact use of land. To squeeze a potentially rival department store (Stix, Baer & Fuller) into their Crestwood Plaza near St. Louis, Developers Louis and Milton Zorensky erected a building on stilts above the parking lot. In a sharp departure from the norm...