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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem, said the magazine, is the "tremendous disparity" between point changes in the Dow-Jones average and the dollars-and-cents meaning of those changes. The Dow-Jones index is calculated by totaling the per-share value of 30 blue-chip industrial stocks (among them: A.T. &T., Du Pont, General Motors, General Electric, U.S. Steel), then dividing the sum by a frequently changed divisor-now 2.278-to erase the effect of stock splits and dividends. Thus figured, the Dow-Jones average of those 30 stocks stood at 888.82 at week's end, but their average market price...
...Looking Glass War, le Carré (3) 4. Hotel, Hailey (5) 5. The Ambassador, West (6) 6. The Green Berets, Moore (4) 7. Don't Stop the Carnival, Wouk (7) 8. Night of Camp David, Knebel (8) 9. Herzog, Bellow (10) 10. The Flight of the Falcon, Du Maurier (9) NONFICTION 1. The Making of the President, 1964, White (1) 2. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre...
...probably beyond hope of improvement. The catch-up reader should then resolve to shun all the authors he feels obliged to read. If his conscience impels him toward Marlowe, he should settle for Harlow; if his secret ambition is to get through all of Dumas, he should try a Du Maurier. For the habitual nonreader to leap into Finnegans Wake or Wittgenstein is almost as unseemly and possibly as dangerous as it is for a middle-aged stockbroker to demonstrate push-ups at a party. By the same token, the would-be title-dropper should stay firmly away from...
...Flight of the Falcon, Du Maurier...
High-Quality Profits. For Wall Street, the best news is the remarkable rise in corporate profits. Last week record first-half highs were reported by such giants as Du Pont, Socony Mobil, Standard Brands and Ford. Though the rate of increase is likely to be somewhat less spectacular in the second half, Washington policymakers figure that the gains already have been so great that the Government's official estimate of $61 billion in corporate profits for 1965 will probably be exceeded. Investors are reaping the benefits; in this year's first six months, cash dividend payments increased...