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...reason for being: covering financial news. This may include intriguing stories about corporate competition and executive politics. More often, however, it involves checking out public relations handouts, tabulating financial statements and reporting boring board meetings. Journal reporters handle such items not only for the paper but also for its Dow Jones financial-news wire, which is facing serious competition for the first time. A similar wire opened last year by Reuters claims some 600 clients...
...teen-ager used to be that nice adolescent next door, witness Sheila James in the Stu Erwin Show, Billy Gray in Father Knows Best, and Tony Dow in Leave It to Beaver. The neo-Penrod type was stereotyped by Ricky Nelson, who grew into and out of adolescence before the entire nation on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet...
...francs and West German marks. Speculators and traders outside France were betting, in effect, on devaluation; they were agreeing to buy francs for future delivery only at discounts of up to 27%. The jitters spread to the British pound, which also weakened on currency exchanges. On Wall Street, the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped twelve points in two days, closing the week...
...study, conducted by Dean K. Whitla, director of the Harvard Office of Tests, concluded that the 255 students who were identified as participants in the 1967 Dow sit-in held a higher than average position on the Harvard rank list...
...Washington's battle against price rises intensified, Wall Street last week finally seemed to get the message. After meandering since January, the stock market suffered its worst weekly loss in 21 years. The Dow-Jones industrial average declined by 35 points, to 917-the lowest level since last September. On the New York Stock Exchange, declines outnumbered advances by 3 to 1. On the American Exchange, prices dropped by an average of 5%. The slide continued until the four-day trading week, abbreviated for Washington's Birthday, ended mercifully on Thursday...