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Reports of suicides have been grossly overstated. But it was a day that shredded fortunes. The preceding week had already seen such huge waves of panic selling that Police Commissioner Grover Whalen stationed an extra 500 cops on the increasingly rowdy streets of New York City's financial district. On Oct. 29, the panic that had possessed speculators and individuals was joined at the opening bell by traders for giant institutions. Blue chips like Standard Oil and Westinghouse gapped lower on massive trading volume. On a whim, a messenger bid for 100 shares of White Sewing Machine...
...when eight cops stomped into the Stonewall Inn, a dive in Manhattan's Greenwich Village district that had no liquor license but served watery drinks to a mix of drag queens, street kids, gay professionals and closeted and straight mafiosi (who ran the place). Within two hours, the Village was bleeding and burning as hundreds rioted...
...case overturning a Connecticut law making it a crime to use birth control, as well as cases in other states challenging antiabortion statutes. We decided to challenge the Texas laws. A pregnant woman called Jane Roe was the plaintiff in the class action we filed against Henry Wade, the district attorney of Dallas County...
...middle of the day, and I'm in a large room in a warehouse district of Queens, N.Y., where I'm beating a pair of heavy sticks against animal skins. The skins are stretched like drumheads over the seats of a couple of old chairs, a stool and the odd bed frame. These "drums" are then suspended from a timbered support that fills most of the room. As everyone knows, pounding on stuff is fun, which may explain why all around me there are people banging their own chairs and bed frames, plus one or two security guards...
...brought a little bite of heaven to Hong Kong, his home for 13 years. The Canadian-born trader studied the art of making authentic gelato under an Italian master before opening his first gelateria, XTC On Ice, a year ago in Hong Kong's trendy SoHo district. Since then, Ackler's gelati have gained a reputation as the best Italian ices in Asia. His mandarin-hued outlet on Cochrane Street, tel: (852) 2541 0500, is thronged even on chilly afternoons with bankers on break, schoolkids off for the day and gym rats looking for a postworkout pick...