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Fenta began his search for an interpreter by submitting a request to Thomas E. Crooks '49, who coordinates services for than dicapped students. He learned of the University program through a letter sent to all students who indicate serious hearing impairments in their admissions forms, housing applications, or school medical records...
...week ago it was revealed that Arthur Scargill, the militantly Marxist leader of the miners, had made several secret visits to the Soviet embassy in London, apparently in an effort to win greater Soviet support. The Soviets, however, appear to have stopped short of granting one Scargill request - to halt their coal and oil exports to Britain...
...before takeoff last week, a testy Genscher canceled his visit. One major reason: a Polish government suggestion that it would be inappropriate for Genscher to visit the grave of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the Solidarity supporter who was murdered last month. In addition, the Warsaw regime vetoed Genscher's request to lay a wreath at the grave of a German soldier killed in World War II and refused to grant a visa for the visit to the correspondent of Bonn's conservative daily Die Welt...
...beyond the usual borders of banking. Customers at Houston's Medical Center Bank with at least $100,000 in their accounts are welcome to borrow the company airplane, a six-passenger Navajo Chieftain. They are asked only to fill the gas tank. At a customer's request, the bank will dispatch its limousine or arrange for theater tickets. The bank, which is situated at the Texas Medical Center, decided in 1978 to devote itself entirely to doctors and other wealthy customers. Says Chairman Donald Neuenschwander: "You can't be all things to all people...
Some bankers were initially hesitant. Lawrence Brainard, a former vice president of Chase Manhattan, remembers the day that the bank first faced the issue: "In early 1974 I joined a small group of senior bankers discussing a request by Denmark for a balance of payments credit. The key question in the meeting was whether private commercial banks had any business making unsecured loans to sovereign borrowers [governments]. After much soul searching, we turned down the request." Next day, however, a competitor stepped in to make the loan. "Within several months," recalls Brainard, "the resistance of my banking colleagues to sovereign...