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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Effective this week, requirements are tightened on day-trading, the technique by which speculators move into and out of a stock on the same day and count on rising prices to pay off their purchase and provide a profit as well. On the New York Stock Exchange, day-traders must now put up 70% of a stock's value within four days of purchase and sale, even if they have already sold it. On the American, they must ante up 70% beforehand. At the same time, margin accounts are being tightened. On new accounts, the minimum equity has been...
Ralph W. (Stody) Ward ran as an Independent for the Cambridge City Council in the last elections and lost. The day after the official count was completed, former City Manager John J. Curry '19 fired Ward from his post as Cambridge youth worker, a post Ward had held since its creation in 1959. Curry offered no explanation, and replaced Ward with a man untrained in youth work, in fact formerly employed by the City as a carpenter...
Melfa promptly plunked At Lemerande with a pitch, loading the bases. He walked John Naye on a 2-2 count, forcing in the first run, and then compounded the misfortune by walking Warren Spaeth to drive in another. Navy had their two runs -- on four bases on balls, a wild pitch, and 'a batsman...
...semester away from college a student would miss two full courses. He might be required to take one full course in summer school before or after his time away. This seven-week course would still leave five months for the "academic semester off." which would also count as a full course...