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...though Manville stock was one of 30 that make up the Dow Jones industrial average, the market shrugged off the firm's troubles, and the Dow gained 11 points in the first hour of trading. Dow Jones quickly said that American Express Co. would replace Manville in the blue-chip index starting this week...
Since that disastrous period, the stock exchange has spent some $70 million on eleven separate electronic systems to relay orders to trading posts, record sales and provide swift and complete information to brokers on how the market is moving. That costly investment paid some blue-chip dividends last week. The record-breaking torrent of trading was handled with ease. Even at the peak of the action on the 138 million-share day, the electronic tapes that list every single trade were a mere 18 minutes behind. It was all a bully good show. ? By Charles Alexander. Reported...
Quiet and subtle as a diplomatic entreaty, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, 59, has, like so many members of past White House inner circles, gone into the consulting business. The freshly lettered office doors in New York and Washington provide the name: Kissinger Associates Inc., a blue-chip team that includes Lord Carrington, 63, who resigned as Britain's Foreign Minister when the Argentines invaded the Falklands, and Robert O. Anderson, 65, retired chairman of Atlantic Richfield. The firm's services: strategic planning and advice on international-business decision making for about 20 large long-term corporate...
...with an advertising campaign under the headline THE BOAT SHOE THAT'S ABOUT TO BLOW SPERRY TOPSIDER OUT OF THE WATER. The full-page ads claimed that the Sperry shoe had a "painted on" pigment that dries and cracks, was often machine made, used painted metal eyelets that chip, and had a less durable sole...
Bloodstock goes blue chip...