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...commodities exchanges, the Chicago Board of Trade and the New York Commodity Exchange. The New York exchange alone currently has futures contracts outstanding for 155 million oz. of silver, but its warehouses contain only about 70 million oz. Warns Jack Boyd, vice president of New York's Drexel Burnham Lambert brokerage firm: "The ownership of the contracts is concentrated in only a very few hands, and there seems to be a definite indication on the part of the contract holders to want actual delivery...
...Robert Burnham...
Others locate the blame in the nation's political and social leadership. According to Walter Dean Burnham, a political scientist at M.I.T.: "Most of us pretty much take life as it is given to us by others. For example, destroy local mass transit systems, promote suburban sprawl ... permit central cities to deteriorate into jungles and stimulate the automotive industry by every advertising trick known to man, and what do you get? A spread-out network of settlement, work, distribution and consumption which has become absolutely dependent on the automobile for its existence." Burnham will have none of the "pundits...
...Make Affirmative Action Happen--Margaret Burnham, Judge, Boston Municipal Court; Community Church Center, 565 Boylston St., Boston...
...Andre Sharon (Drexel Burnham Lambert...