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...Sept. 11 % Gain Natomas Co. 14⅜ 60⅞ 323.5 Reading & Bates 9⅝ 28 190.9 Checker Motors Corp. 10¾ 29 169.8 Santa Fe International 13 27⅝ 112.5 Philips Industries, Inc. 8 14⅞ 85.9 Redman Industries Inc. 11¾ 21⅝ 84.0 Pacific Petroleums 15¼ 27⅜ 79.5 Amerada Hess Corp. 20½ 36⅛ 76.2 Great Western Financial 12¼ 21½ 75.5 Imperial Corp. of America 7⅛ 12½ 75.4 Belco Petroleum Corp. 10½ 18⅜ 75.0 Gibraltar Financial of Calif. 11¾ 20⅜ 73.4 Xtra...
...into a diner, sit next to a little old lady and calmly make a meal out of his paper napkin ?complete with salt, pepper and ketchup. He also liked to knock on strangers' doors and inquire politely, "Is this the party?" Or walk into one door of a Checker cab stopped in traffic and out the other (apologizing to the passenger), or call up relatives and confound them with some uncanny voice impersonation of the rabbi or the neighborhood butcher. It was the kind of desperately funny behavior that was a frustrated child's plea for attention...
Although the completed guidance system will not be ready for widespread installation for at least five years, those who kept pace with the pacers deemed the experiment unbelievably successful. "It is incredible," marveled Woburn Supermarket Checker Jeannette Gillis. "When you pull out, there isn't a car there." Most motorists, in fact, like Billerica Store Manager Bob Gaughan, found the system almost suspiciously painless. "I still had a tendency," Gaughan remembers, "to turn around and look at the oncoming traffic. Just to make sure...
...What record label did Chubby Checker put out his early hits...
Walter Van Vort '69 is a graduate of Exeter and Harvard College. For the past half-year, he has been living in Cambridge, doing odd jobs to pay his rent and using what he has left of a small inheritance for spending money. Last month, he also drove a Checker...