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...than heaven. Last week, ignoring the normally bearish portents of monetary upheavals abroad and higher interest rates at home, Wall Street's customers seized on rumors of brightened peace prospects in Viet Nam to continue the stock market's best rally in more than a year. The Dow Jones industrial average rose four points to close at a year's high of 961.61. All told, the 38-point rise since late April was the Dow's best performance since 13 months ago-when peace talk was also...
...measured by the Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks. The stock indicator does, however, show a rise for April. Overly excited by European political events and peace prospects in Viet Nam, investors sent the 500 up by 2.28 points last week to close at 104; the narrower Dow-Jones average of 30 industrials climbed 33 points to 957 for its best week-long rally in 13 months...
...started with us in 1966 at the time of the McNamara incident. We had another episode the following year, when the Dow recruiter came to our community and there was a sit-in. We had one in December this year in the Paine Hall incident where students insisted on sitting in the place where there was to be a Faculty meeting...
...areas with fine art. In the decade since the program's inception, the bank has spent $800,000 for 1,500 paintings, sculptures and graphics by 500 artists. The collection's net value has appreciated to $1,500,000 -a 60% increase that compares favorably with the Dow Jones industrial average...
Last year, I wrote a highly irresponsible piece on the editorial page called "The Sit-Ins Work." The piece pointed out that the remarkable thing about students actions against Dow and the Army and things was successful--the students almost always won their demands. That is what happened at Harvard this April. The sit-in worked. I think I understand better now why it worked. It worked because the people in charge thought that what it was about was obviously important--since action in our society is so rare, and since everything has its reason. The sit-in worked...