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...bill would permit banks or bank holding companies to take over weak thrift institutions. For that reason the bill is opposed by the U.S. League of Savings Associations, a lobbying group for the thrifts. Says a league spokesman: "It is the camel's nose in the tent that would lead to eventual interstate branching and interindustry combinations...
...ancient Soldiers Field press box, nemesis of sportswriters and broad-casters and, really, no better protection against chilling wind than a tent of Saran, tumbled down in flames torched by a well-intentioned (and reporter-funded?) arsonist...
DIED. Jim Davis, 67, gruff, rangy character actor who played Jock Ewing, the oil-baron patriarch on TV's top-rated Dallas; after surgery for a perforated ulcer: in Los Angeles, Calif. Davis, who worked as a circus tent rigger and construction laborer before catching on as a western type in Hollywood in the 1940s, was not in Dallas' final episode of the current season, which aired last week. There are no plans to recast Jock Ewing, who will be written out of the show before shooting for the new season begins this month...
...itself, a cantilevered, air-conditioned marvel on Terminal Island at Long Beach, Calif., is being demolished now, sold off by what is left of Hughes' Summa Corp. The Goose, moved by tugboat last fall to a site a quarter mile away, has a temporary home in a circus tent. A reporter enters the tent prepared to see a dead whale on a flatcar...
Workers in the tent are busy with wood, linen and airplane dope making a new flying tab-the movable vertical control surface-for the 49-ft.-high rudder. Not long ago, rain and wind invaded the tent and damaged the rudder, which seems to have been repaired once before, since it bears an inked notation saying that it was worked on in April 1954. A few months before that, Soderberg says, floodwaters surged across Terminal Island, and the Goose was knocked loose from its tie downs, and the tail was damaged. The night of the flood, more than 25 years...