Prime Rate Drops Amid Recession Signals and Predictions
The prime rate falls to 16 percent led by Crocker National Bank with others cutting to 16.5 percent as recession accelerates. United Missouri Bancshares lowers to 15.75 percent while economists offer a range of end-year targets from 13 to 10 percent. Fed acts to remove the 2 point surcharge on its 13 percent discount.
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Crocker National Bank
San Francisco
United Missouri Bancshares
Missouri
Thomas Thomson
Crocker
Edward Yardens
E.F. Hutton & Co. Inc
Yardeni
Federal Reserve
Commerce
Malcolm Baldrige
Federal Reserve Board
Fed
Reagan Holden friendship shown as president recalls bond
President Reagan mourns longtime friend William Holden, noting their shared Screen Actors Guild history and decades of collaboration. Holden, 63, was found dead in his Santa Monica apartment with coroner pointing to natural causes after about a week. The actor, famed for Stalag 17 and Sunset Boulevard, left a private life and conservation work in Kenya.
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Santa Monica
Callf
William Holden
Ronald
Nancy Reagan
Los Angeles
Scott Carrier
Holden
Philip Schwartzberg
White House
Larry Speakes
Speakes
Reagan
Screen Actors Guild
Brenda Marshall
Nancy Davis
Judy Holliday
Audrey Hepburn
Sabrina
Grace Kelly
TokoRi
Jennifer Jones
Kim Novak
Nancy Kwan
Suzie Wong
Stefanie Powers
Kenya
Anti-55 Crusader Denied in Kansas Suit
Kelly Wendeln, the Chanute anti 65 mph speed limit activist, failed to secure summary judgment as U S District Court Judge Patrick Kelly refused to rule and gave Wendeln 10 days to respond to Kansas from seeking dismissal. The judge did not explain, but Wendeln remains pursuing an injunction to block 55 mph enforcement.
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Topeka
Kan
Kelly Wendeln
Kansas
Wendeln
Chanute
Robert T. Stephan
U.S. District Court
Patrick Kelly
Wendein
Kelly
Neil Woerman
Stephan
Skokie drama fuels conflict and conscience on TV
In CBS special Skokie, Danny Kaye stars as Max Feldman in a tense portrayal of Nazis planning a march in Skokie. The cast includes Carl Reiner as ADL head Abbot Rosen and Eli Wallach as the city attorney shaping legal barriers, with George Deundza as Nazi leader Frank Collin and John Rubinstein amid inner civil liberties strife.
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New York
Skokie, I
CBS
Skokie
Herbert Brodkin
America
Feldman
Danny Kaye
Max Feldman
Kaye
Anti-Defamation League
Abbot Rosen
Carl Reiner
Ed Flanders
Eli Wallach
Frank Collin
George Deundza
Herb Lewisohn
John Rubinstein
Rubinstein
Kansas shale mining deemed uneconomical now
University of Kansas geologist Ernest Angino says Kansas shale mining is not economically feasible at present. He notes potential for future viability if a better extraction method develops. A conference on energy research with KU Kansas State and Wichita State reports Angino directing a statewide shale study with 125 samples from 20 sites.
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Topeka, Kan
University of Kansas
Kansas
Ernest Angino
Angino
Statehouse
Kansas Energy Office
William J. Silvery
U.S. Department of Energy
Kansas State
Wichita State
Hinckley Brain To Be Examined
Government plans a brain function test to determine if John W. Hinckley Jr has permanent brain damage after a suicide attempt in prison. He remains in intensive care at Fort Meade, with officials noting improvement but uncertainty about lasting neurological effects and potential impact on his planned January 4 trial for the Reagan shooting.
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Washington
John W. Hinckley Jr
Reagan
U.S
Hinckley
Kimbrough Army Community Hospital
Fort Meade
Justice Department
Tom DeCair
DeCair
Vincent Fuller
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Virginia
Fred Rothenberg
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