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...away from doing business with brokers and to patronize mutual funds. On the other side, many brokers argue that they lose money on small investors and have no incentive to serve them well. The minimum commission set by the exchange at present is $6 on a trade. Francis I. du Pont has boosted that to $15 and Eastman Dillon...
...House on the Strand, du Maurier...
According to Dr. Lee A. Du Bridge, the President's science adviser, the overall effect of the new budget, after allowing for inflation, will be to reduce net buying power for research by about 3%. Others think the reduction will be much greater-in some cases as much as 20% in areas of fundamental scientific research that offer no immediate, practical payoffs. This is generally called "basic research," a favorite target of administrators and legislators with little patience and less vision. Out of apparently aimless inquiries have come antibiotics and transistors, vaccines and computers, transplants and spaceships. Government budget...
Mark Taper Forum, the play is perhaps best betrayed by description. Acting on behalf of the stockholders of the copper-rich Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga, the U.S. pressures the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjold (George Voskovec), to accede to the murder of the Congolese leader, Patrice Lumumba (Louis Gossett). At the very least, this proposition proves that a sovereign contempt for the playgoers' intelligence is not confined to Broadway...
...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 in a single trading session. The Dow-Jones has gone down 25% since December 1968 and 7% since 1970 began...