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...obvious that if these clinics were to be effective they would need the broadest participation possible. That meant that while NSA could sponsor the clinics and see that they got organized, once the clinics started, they would have to include non-NSA schools and would have to be independent of the sponsoring organization...
Professional traders, who scoffingly described the selling by small stockholders as "emotional" and "hysterical," stepped up their buying Thursday morning. The market bounced up, recovering a fourth of its losses. But on Friday, in the broadest session on record (out of 1,415 stocks listed, 1,174 were traded), the averages went down again. By week's end, the Dow-Jones industrial average was down to 178.94, a drop of 10.82, wiping out the gains of the pre-election rally of the last five weeks. It was the market's worst four days since the spring...
...only in the very broadest sense--a sense in which few, if any, would take the slogan--that "birth control" is not against God's law. Restriction of births by the natural means of continence is entirely moral...
...Broadest Grin. On May 7, 1945, Jodl and his colleagues arrived at Supreme Headquarters to surrender. As Kay recalls the scene: "I felt a shiver of excitement. I shoved Telek [the General's Scotty] under the desk, commanding him not to bark. [The Nazis] marched straight by without as much as a glance . . . sour-faced, glum, erect and despicable. They came to a parade-ground halt, clicked their heels and saluted . . . General Eisenhower stood stock-still, more military than I had ever seen him. His voice was brittle." When it was over, and "the Germans half-bowed, saluted...
...amendment to the draft bill. Neither the committee's colleagues in the House & Senate, nor the White House, noted the real meaning of the amendment. Only after President Truman signed the draft bill last week did the fact come fully clear: Congress had unwittingly provided for the broadest draft of U.S. industry in peacetime history...