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...restricted in any way; the only slight hitch came when neither of his interpreters wanted to be seen talking to the far-out stilyagi youths. Their reluctance, which they eventually overcame, seemed based less on fear than on social position. Reported Bell: "It was like a young Wall Street broker being seen on a tough street in Manhattan consorting with a rumbleprone gang." Bell found that Soviet young people are "furiously interested in everything and have opinions, some considerably distorted, on everything." They were polite, respectful and vigorous in setting forth their ideas...
Natex Chairman Lawrence Huntington Taylor, 48, a veteran Wall Street broker, believes that many of the nation's more than 50,000 unlisted stock companies will flock to the Natex in hopes of getting the publicity, ease of trading, and aura of stability afforded by listing. But on opening day the new exchange listed only eight issues, most of which carried in their corporate titles such alluring words as "automated," "missiles" or "electronics"-and six of which are selling below their original offering prices...
Bidwell, known to Wall Street friends as "Biddy," is a shy, much-respected Lehigh graduate who came to the Street shortly before the 1929 crash, bought his Exchange seat in 1941, and has since prospered as an independent floor broker. Unlike most men with large incomes, he filled out his own tax returns...
...Justice Department retorted stiffly that Bidwell was not accused of misconduct as a broker, and that his case had been working its way routinely through the Internal Revenue Service machinery for three years. It may only have been pure coincidence that the tax evasion suit against so prominent a citizen was brought just as all America sits down to exercise its ingenuity on Form...
President Kennedy sent a telegram to the Roosevelt Day Dinner, praising the A.D.A. as a "broker of ideas." In many periods of our history," the telegram said, "liberals have brought to bear on political problems special gifts of insight and imagination...