Word: blowoffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What next? Some Wall Streeters, noting that the market had jumped 35 points in the past month, figured that it was due for a correction - a minor and temporary decline of 3% or 4% . Others reckoned that last week's pulling and pushing set the base for a blowoff, or sudden and possibly spectacular advance. Many Wall Streeters were predicting that the Dow-Jones by year's end would top 1,000, a goal that seemed almost impossible to achieve just a few weeks...
...identify solar weather conditions that may produce them. First, says Dr. James Van Allen, discoverer of the Van Allen radiation belt, a sunspot must be visible. A group of several sunspots is even more likely to produce a flare, but not all do. Often they fade away without a blowoff...
...President Kennedy sees it, is not likely to take the form of a big nuclear blowoff, although he intends to be prepared for one. The 19605. he thinks, will be an era of messy internal struggles where opposing sides are fed help and guidance by the two major world powers. "The struggle." said he, "is changing. It's not a question of troops marching across a frontier. We face the problems of having 'Spains' all over in the next decade. Laos is an example-Viet Nam. the Congo. It is a question of subversion and paramilitary political...