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PHILIP A. HOUCK Fairfield, Conn...
...given over-the-counter stock by making individual calls to other brokers specializing in those shares. In a technological leap, 750 leading brokers switched last week to an automated quotation system. They punched their bid-and-asked prices into desktop terminals connected to Univac computers in Trumbull, Conn., and read the resulting information on TV-like consoles. To close a deal, a broker then phoned the firm offering the most attractive price. The arrangement not only mutes the shouting in over-the-counter trading rooms but gives a customer more assurance that his own broker is obtaining the best price...
Died. Debs Myers, 59, onetime newspaperman and public relations expert who served such political figures as Robert F. Wagner, Robert F. Kennedy and Adlai E. Stevenson; of hepatitis; in New Haven, Conn. A onetime managing editor of Newsweek, Myers had a genius for helping politicians help themselves, or, as he put it, "the ability to turn lemons into lemonade." He insisted that "the best public relations in government is good government...
...average. Building tradesmen won pay and fringe-benefit rises averaging 90.4? an hour, compared with 24.3? for workers in other industries. Many settlements will virtually double construction wages over the next three years. For example, hourly pay for Wichita operating engineers will go up from $5.40 to $10.50: Hartford, Conn., electricians, from $6.75 to $12.50; for Los Angeles sheet-metal workers, from...
...Crimson fencing team easily defeated a weak Trinity College team, 17-10, in a match held in the Hilltoppers' new sports complex in Hartford, Conn. It was Harvard's fourth victory against only two defeats...