Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cuban Revolutionary Che Guevara spent the last year of his life trying without success to topple the government of Bolivia. Ironically, Che has come close to doing in death what he could not achieve in life. Last week the 14-man Cabinet of Bolivia's President René Barrientos resigned in the embarrassed furor following the leak of Che's diary to his old boss, Fidel Castro...
...priests who have taught them. As they banter, a narrator (Art Carney), introduces a fragment of the future-the couple drown in a nearby lake. These are their last hours on earth, which take on new sweetness and meaning as the afternoon and their lives inexorably draw to a close...
...number by the issuing corporation, a second by the broker who is selling, and a third by the broker who is buying. Such hoary habits, coupled with an unprecedented volume in trading, have created so much paper work that the nation's stock exchanges have been forced to close down every Wednesday since June 12 to catch up, a practice that will continue at least through...
...hoped to replace all the certificates of actively traded issues with a standard-sized punch card. Every stock or bond issue will have an eight-digit identification number that will be used on all wire communications, transactions, transfers and dividend claims. Standard & Poor's will spend close to $1,000,000 coding some 1,000,000 stocks and bond issues into two directories, each the size of the Manhattan phone book. It plans to make a profit by selling the directories to brokerage firms, banks and bond houses...
...From Hubert Humphrey's early career as a professor through his years in the Senate and as Vice President, he has maintained close contact with the academic community. Today's endorsement by 1000 college professors reflects only part of his support within this community...