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Unlike the new PATS, NOW accounts have been tried and proved by banks and other thrift institutions in the six New England states for several years, with impressive results. The region's biggest bank, Boston's First National, attracted NOW depositors from all 50 states and some 70 foreign countries. In fact, about 20% of the funds in the bank's NOW accounts come from depositors outside of Massachusetts. Says Kenneth Rossano, senior vice president at the bank: "Nationwide NOW accounts are inevitable...
...women, the Annie Hallmark is tailored blazers, skirts and wrinkly fabrics, as exemplified in Calvin Klein's spring/summer collection. The paradox is that classic clothes end up looking like thrift shop purchases within a few steamy hours. One of the hottest-or coolest -fabrics around is Indian gauze, dyed with eggplant, saffron, cucumber and other natural substances, maybe even curry powder. Indian fabrics were among the highlights of a huge sales promotion of Indian merchandise mounted by Manhattan's Bloomingdale's last April. The material is so popular in New England that the Rhode Island-based...
With forethought and on-scene thrift, Europe can still be affordable and memorable. The small hotels and offbeat restaurants can be as pleasant as any in the world. But don't forget the aspirin...
...plus A.B.T. salary to a relative. Her only real extravagance is an addiction to New York cabs; if her destination is more than four blocks away, Gelsey starts waving an arm. On the street she is indistinguishable from the thousands of women who have achieved thrift-shop eclecticism, a mildly deracinated New York look: jeans or slacks, boots or clogs, bulky sweater, dangling scarf, knit...
...haircut is straight out of the '50s; the rumpled suit looks like a reject from a thrift-store bin. With huge hornrimmed glasses covering half his face, Elvis Costello, 23, looks vaguely familiar as he swaggers awkwardly up to a microphone. Ah, but of course. He is that same little guy who couldn't buy himself a date back in high school...