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...each other a colder eye than ever. State-chartered banks are accusing the nationally chartered banks of attempting to move in on them. Both state and national banks are squabbling with the aggressive savings and loan associations, which have recently jacked their interest rates as high as 5% to tempt savers. Amid their competition for customers, all the banks are worried about growing Government regulation: the Justice Department is striving to block several bank mergers, and the House Banking Committee, after years of torpor, is striking out with half-a-dozen investigations into many phases of banking...
...publish an Official Secret. There are thousands more secrets in captivity. This is not the only one we shall release." The information it contained was, in fact, highly classified: the locations, code names and telephone numbers of twelve Regional Seats of Government from which British authorities would at tempt to restore order in the event of nuclear attack. "This," exclaimed Home Secretary Henry Brooke, "is the work of a traitor...
Much hope, therefore, is being placed in Gary Miller, a sophomore who worked behind the plate for the freshman team last year. In addition to doing a fine defensive job, he maintained a .380 average. That mark is impressive enough to tempt Shepard to place Miller else where on the field should Diehl fully recover...
...last year, while in Japan, Tebaldi looked in the mirror and was appalled by what she saw. Her late mother was no longer at her side to tempt her with plates of pasta, so she promptly went on a diet. She hired two Japanese masseuses, who pounded away at her for an hour and a half every day, and she dropped 24 Ibs. in six months and dyed her hair red. When she returned to the Metropolitan Opera last week after an absence of a year, she decided that having refurbished her form, she would also refurbish...
...time he was 17 and a high school senior, the offers had grown to "slightly more than 100." One school promised him plenty of spending money, another a car. Four offered to pay his way through medical school, provide free housing if he married. One even tried to tempt Thorn's father with a police job in the same county. "At first I enjoyed the attention," says Rod. "But then I decided it was sort of repulsive." He turned them all down in favor of a straight athletic scholarship to West Virginia (tuition, room and board). Besides...