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...Careless. In any case, the investigations-and the rumors-will continue, much to the dismay of the Amex and the other exchanges. They are getting bruised mainly because many brokers have grown all too careless with their customers-and their customer's men. Last week, to help brokers spot telltale signs of manipulations in the future, the Amex began issuing computerized weekly and monthly reports, which show how actively each of its 573 member firms have been trading in each of its 1,060 listed stocks...
...Security Council. Instead, to almost everyone's astonishment, he used narrowly legal reasoning to order the U.N. troops pulled out -without even consulting the Security Council or the seven nations that contribute to the peace-keeping force. With that action, which was met with incredulity and dismay in Western capitals, Thant and the U.N. just about forfeited any effective peace-keeping role. Nasser himself may have been surprised, but Thant's move left him no choice; he had to move in or seriously lose face...
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* "Soldier in Love," an original drama set in 18th century England that recounts the story of Sir Winston Churchill's ancestors John and Sarah Churchill, who married to the dismay of their respective families but to the delight of Queen Anne. Starring Jean Simmons, Claire Bloom, Keith Michell, Basil Rathbone and Roy Poole...
...offers" from Khrushchev. Even though European unity was set back by the ascendancy of Charles de Gaulle, and specifically by De Gaulle's veto of British Common Market membership on Jan. 14, 1963, Adenauer a scant week later concluded a perpetual Treaty of Friendship with France, to much dismay in the West...
...five novels, but The Master and Margarita, which critics knew existed but had never seen in print, is perhaps his most daring work. Its publication for the first time in Russia is part of a literary rebellion that is sweeping through Soviet letters. The Kremlin is watching in dismay, but has so far tried to contain rather than crush the new independence...