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Covering His Risks. All those words had only a temporary effect. Nixon's remarks caused stock prices to close higher for the first time in a week and a half. The next day the Dow-Jones industrial average fell again until early afternoon; then it overreacted to Kennedy's words by jumping more than 14 points in half an hour. But the extreme euphoria soon wore off, and stocks seesawed inconclusively, closing at 753 on the Dow-Jones, nine points higher than the previous week...
Western Suspicion. Providing bandages for wounded investors is not high on Nixon's list of priorities. In spite of five years in a Wall Street law firm, he still has some Western suspicion of Eastern financiers. The President does not have a Dow-Jones ticker in or near his office. The market is rarely a topic of serious discussion among White House staff members or government economic advisers...
...David C. Dow, Cambridge City Medical Examiner, said last night that Twedt died as a result of "crushed chest with multiple injuries received when he fell from the building...
...grip of the longest bear market since World War II. Stocks have dropped almost steadily for 13 months, and in that time the listed shares held by 26 million Americans have been cut by $158 billion. Last week the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 31 points, to 744, bringing the market to its lowest point since November 1963, just after President Kennedy was assassinated. The decline was democratic. Du Pont scraped a 15-year low. U.S. Steel traded at its 1954 level. Control Data and University Computing, among other recent glamour stocks, lost ten points or more each...
Pusey apparently tells his friends that there have been three major failures in his years at Harvard. The first was the Faculty's decision to let the 1967 Dow protesters off with minor punishment. The second was the Faculty's emergency vote last April to give students a greater role in the Afro-American Studies Department. And the last is the continued existence of Jack Stauder-the Instructor who was arrested in University Hall-within Harvard's confines...