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...campaign posters still dot lampposts and telephone poles, his supporters suspected that the union was responsible for the murders. During four days of wildcat strikes, up to 19,000 miners angrily walked off their jobs, closing down a number of mines. Yablonski's two surviving sons, Kenneth and Chip, both lawyers, issued a statement saying: "There is no doubt that these horrible misdeeds are an outgrowth of our father's most recent bid to win election...
...when you're through shopping what happens? You bring home your rabbit skirt or your feather duster and it's the wrong size. Or you get a tie for Joe, Bobby Vinton for Nancy, a blue chip for Dad-and Mom feels left out. And of course most sale items are non-returnable. Shopping is fun, but what can you get that the whole family can enjoy...
Scott treats blue-chip polluters as firmly as other prosecutors do the Mafia. His list of defendants facing court action reads like a Who's Who of big business: U.S. Steel, Republic Steel, Mobil Oil, American Zinc and Monsanto, to name a few. Under his guidance, Illinois recently joined a number of other states and cities in a Federal Government suit against General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and other vehicle makers. Scott wants the Government to force the auto industry to install antismog devices on all cars and trucks dating back to 1953. In late November, charging that "the exhaust...
...welcome as the holiday rally was, many investors might question whether the volatile Dow average really reflects the overall trend of U.S. stock prices. The Dow, which is composed of 30 blue-chip stocks (from Allied Chemical to Woolworth), has made the stock market look sicker than it really has been during its seven-month slide. From its 1969 peak in mid-May, the D-J average has fallen 17%; the decline has been only 13%, or 24% less for the broadly based New York Stock Exchange composite average of all 1,287 listed companies and Standard & Poor...
Many other blue-chip companies have lost their historic appeal to big investors, partly because their growth prospects look small, and partly because of young brokers' thirst for quick gains. Under the circumstances, better news than any rise in the Dow may be that the Big Board's composite average and the S & P 500 have each gained 1% in the past two weeks...