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...Robert W. Haack, who this fall succeeds Keith Funston as president, is whether floor trading can be handled more efficiently by machine than by men; the exchange is considering moving to nearby New Jersey with automated equipment to escape New York City's stock-transfer tax. By its 200th birthday celebration, the speeches may well be made by computers...
...threeday, 1,500-mile tour of Appalachia's schools. "I stood it for two days," he said, after bounding down the ramp of Air Force One and bussing Lady Bird, "but I couldn't last out the third one." To mark Andrew Jackson's 200th birthday, the Johnsons breakfasted at the Hermitage, later visited the home of James Polk, a President whose name often gets lost in the jumble between Jackson and Lincoln but who turned the U.S. into a conti nent-spanning nation by acquiring territory now comprising Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, California and parts...
Sotheby's rival in London, Christie's, began its 200th season with sales of old wines and steam engine and ship models. The exquisite toys brought $1 15,556 in a day; a bottle of Chateau Pichon-Longueville 1878 brought more than $5 a glass. In such a heady atmosphere, Christie's now expects that Peter Paul Rubens' The Judgment of Paris, which they first appraised as a $280 copy by Lankrink (TIME, Sept. 16), will top $225,000 when it goes on the block next month. Another newly discovered Rubens, an oil sketch...
...until last week. On the fourth lap, Robert McLean, a Ford dealer from Vancouver, B.C., was gearing down for the hairpin when his Canadian-owned Ford GT 40 careened into a phone pole and burst into flames. McLean died in the fire, but worse was to come. On the 200th lap, Pennsylvania's Mario Andretti tried to downshift his non-factory Ferrari from fourth to third, slammed the lever into first instead. The Ferrari spun, slewed into a speeding Porsche, and drove it off the track into a group of spectators-killing four of them...
...nine, he had started "throwing," or molding clay, at his brother's pottery, opened his own kiln 20 years later, and plunged into the relentless experimentation that marked him as one of the most liberal and scientific minds of the Age of Enlightenment. This is the 200th anniversary of the year when his cream-colored earthenware so impressed Queen Charlotte I that she made Wedgwood her court potter and ordered that pearly pottery be called Queen's Ware. The works were fit even for an empress, and Catherine the Great of Russia ordered a Queen's Ware...