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...selling stocks or bonds, many of these so-called second-tier banks have been forced to borrow increasing amounts of money from other banks and from the Federal Reserve, often on short terms and at high interest rates, in order to satisfy loan demand. As the recession has gathered steam, meanwhile, bad loans have been mounting...
McNally's towel-clad "Kartoon Komics" frequent the Ritz Baths, a gay rendezvous complete with steam bath, tiny cubicles for man-to-man trysts and a third-rate entertainer, Googie Gomez, a thrush with a condor's appetite for stardom. As the chanteuse, Rita Moreno is a comic earthquake ranking ten on the Richter scale, though her Puerto Rican accent renders some of her lines unintelligible...
Many, perhaps most, people who seek psychiatric help have some sort of destructive impulse, and their threats or wishes to see someone dead are routine and generally harmless ways of letting off steam. But many therapists wonder if juries will think so if a patient later really decides to kill someone. "It means," said Psychiatrist Robert L. Marvin of San Francisco, "that a jury can decide by hindsight whether a doctor has used the best professional judgment...
...University may face an added $1 million steam heating bill increase because of President Ford's proposed tax on imported oil, a Buildings and Grounds spokesman said yesterday...
Thomas said yesterday that the recent warm weather "has helped considerably" in keeping steam heating costs at a minimum so far this winter...