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...Dow Wilson was never a man to be ignored. A swashbuckling, Shakespeare-spouting romantic, he was also a volatile, foulmouthed labor leader who spent years fighting chicanery in his union's higher echelons. As the $13,000-a-year secretary of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers' San Francisco Local 4-biggest in the U.S.-he commanded the unwavering allegiance of nearly all 2,600 local members. Wilson, 40, was parted from that job on April 5, when shotgun blasts tore into his chest and shattered his skull...
...Ruth B. Dow, 64, of Belmont was trying to board the bus at 1:50 p.m. as it began to pull out onto Mass. Ave. from the parking area adjacent to the kiosk and across the street from Lehman Hall...
Apparently the driver did not hear her knocking at the back door and began to accelerate. Mrs. Dow slipped and fell beneath the vehicle and her head was crushed by the right rear wheel...
Though the market will quite possibly go lower still, this very fact carries a potential of strength for the future. Prices have been falling while corporate earnings have been rising, with the result that the important "price-earnings ratio" of stocks in the Dow-Jones industrial average is down to 14.85 times this year's expected earnings, compared with ratios of 19 to 1 in each of the last two years. Moreover, plenty of big buying power is waiting on the sidelines. Brokers are holding $1.8 billion in unused cash for their investors and large institutions have plenty...
...said that on that day of April 16, 1964, Lament had also bought 3,000 new shares of Texas Gulf Sulphur himself. This was more than two hours after a company-sponsored press conference had announced the news of the new field. The word had already been carried on Dow-Jones tickers. Brokers' representatives had attended the press conference and phoned the information to their offices. Rumors of the find and reports of heavy rigging equipment moving through the nearby town of Timmins, Ont., had been carried in newspapers for two weeks; on the morning of the Texas Gulf...