Mr. Slight, who is retired, was a vice president of the Harris Trust and Savings Bank in Chicago.

"We're generally still looking at a weak economy," said Earl Johnson, a vice president with Harris Trust in Chicago.

He was an officer of Chicago's Harris Trust and Savings Bank for many years and was promoted to senior vice president in 1971.

Harris Trust and Savings Bank was established 1907.

Earl Johnson of the Harris Trust and Savings Bank said the dollar could top 1.5500 marks this week.

Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at the Harris Trust and Savings Bank, said that the economic recovery depended on companies' being able to get credit.

"I think the market will focus more on next week's economic figures," said Ronald Holzer, chief dealer for Harris Trust and Company in Chicago.

But in announcing the settlement today, the Harris Trust and Savings Bank continued to deny the Government's allegation that the employees had faced discrimination.

The subsidiary, through Harris Trust and Savings Bank, is lumbering toward trial on an ugly lawsuit brought by a onetime corporate customer.

Earl I. Johnson, a trader at Harris Trust and Company in Chicago, said technical factors were responsible for the dollar's movements.