Word: charts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last Wall Street's bulls found something to feed on. The Dow-Jones average, which had been floundering all summer, jumped 35 points following the Cuban crisis, and climbed another 11.55 points last week to close at 616.13. Chart watchers were particularly cheered that the market cracked 616, which to them had seemed a crucial and formidable number because the Dow-Jones had not closed so high since just before Blue Monday...
...till next year. Last year the Kennedy Administration trumpeted that it would bring the nation's international payments into balance during 1963. Last week, acknowledging that it had been overoptimistic, the Commerce Department reported that the U.S. overseas deficit widened in this year's third quarter (see chart), would probably wind up at more than $2 billion for the whole year...
...applicants, rich and poor, will be listed on a big chart in Andover's admissions office. Studying each boy's credentials, three faculty men and an admissions director, working individually, will grade the applicant from 1 to 5, with 5 representing total disapproval. The four grades will be added (and a helpful three points will be subtracted from the totals of sons of Andover alumni). About one fifth of the boys-that is, those with low totals-will be accepted. The rest will be turned down...
...expected to fill an existing need for an edition of the RSV that will provide authoritative explanations of many points in the text." William Collins Sons & Co. is advertising the Collins Clear-Type Plantin Text RSV Bible, which features "four pages of full-color illustrated helps, a Biblical time chart in color, an entirely new collection of modern full-color photographs, and an eight-page, full-color selection of maps"-all for only $8.50 in the edition with "French Morocco Black Leather semi-overlapping covers, red under gold edges, ribbon marker, boxed." Harper & Row has a children's Bible...
...Including the sharp stock price drop, which is considered one of the most significant clues, 17 of the 30 now have thumbs down. On the bright side, two meaningful indicators, price per unit of labor costs and housing starts, were headed up last week (see chart...