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Farmers notwithstanding, most Americans welcome foreign capital. A typical reaction comes from Lisa Freeburn, 21, who left her job as a bank teller to become a receptionist for the German-owned Keiper U.S.A., which opened an auto accessories plant in Battle Creek, Mich., 20 months ago. Says she: "I like it much better than the bank. There's more international atmosphere here. You get a bit of both cultures...
...rose from a $90-per-week bank teller to millionaire bank president, Bert Lance never forgot his friends−or his poor relations. Between 1963 and 1974, while he was president of the First National Bank in Calhoun, Ga. (pop. 6,000), he arranged five loans totaling about $140,000 for his unemployed mother-in-law, Ruth M. Chance. When the interest payments were due, Lance sometimes wrote checks on her overdrawn Calhoun account to make the payments. He also arranged loans, and made similar repayments, for three brothers-in-law: a total of $57,982 to retired Naval Officer...
...Tony meets at the 2001 and with whom he inevitably falls in love. Stephanie looks down on Tony and his neighborhood because she works in a Manhattan record agency, where everything is beautiful: "The people are beautiful, the offices are beautiful, lunch hours are beautiful, everyone shops at Bonwit Teller," she maintains. The first time Tony and Stephanie talk over coffee is a funny scene, with Stephanie obnoxiously dropping names of the movie and rock stars she's lunched with, and Tony gamely trying to hang on in the conversation...
...last week's end the FBI appeared near a break on the case after administering lie detector tests to bank employees. (The chief teller and almost all of the 100 other bank workers passed the test with no trouble.) Said an FBI agent cryptically: "The pieces are beginning to fall together. We do have some suspects; we have narrowed it down." One theory was that someone with access to the vaults had walked off with the cash and turned it over to a confederate, who had flown it out of the country. The prospect of an arrest without recovery...
...Edward Teller, principal architect of the H-bomb, reflecting on his life 25 years later: "I don't give a good damn what my public image is. I have one image of myself and that is of a man who is shaving...