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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHICK COREA: TONES FOR JOAN'S BONES (Vortex). There is a brilliant clarity, like tumbling diamonds, to the tones Pianist Corea polishes off here. His touch is firm and percussive, his ear tuned toward a definite, stirring pulse. In Litha he strings together quick, imaginative melodic fragments that are the mark of the alert modernist. When backing the other soloists (Joe Farrell, tenor; Woody Shaw Jr., trumpet), he spreads sprays of dazzling notes that support and enhance the horns' flights. In Tones for Joan's Bones, he displays a more reflective gleam by smoothly rolling the melody...
...many pressures have converged on stock prices that few brokers last week foresaw much chance of a quick rebound, though fewer still expected the slide to grow into a severe plunge. "The market is awash in a sea of doubt," said Vice President Robert T. Allen of the Manhattan firm of Shearson, Hammill. Along with the prospect of an economic slowdown because of the 10% income tax surcharge, there were worries over declining profits, falling interest rates (which help to suck investable funds back into bonds), and reduced business spending on expansion. With many big institutional traders sitting...
...massive paperwork pileup. Despite Wednesday trading recesses, which will continue at least for the rest of the month, the problem of undelivered securities and accounting confusion remains so severe that two organizations last week took drastic steps to overcome it. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the largest U.S. securities firm, imposed a "house rule" forbidding its salesmen to sell over-the-counter stocks for customers unless they first have physical possession of the certificates involved. The National Association of Securities Dealers, a trade group which polices the over-the-counter market, drafted a similar rule for its 3,700 member...
...vice president of Manhattan's Allen & Co. investment banking firm, White made himself heard back home in Denver in 1964 by parlaying $100,000 of his own money into control of Colorado Milling & Elevator Co. He then shook up Denver's old guard with some financial wizardry that enabled him to take over the venerable Great Western Sugar Co. He has since merged his two companies into the Great Western United Corp., a diversified $259 million-a-year food products firm, of which he is both chairman and president...
...whole families sat for hours poring over the treasures in a Sears catalogue. It was called "the wishing book," and it was usually tattered and dog-eared by the time somebody punched a hole in it and hung it in the family privy. When this particular catalogue appeared, the firm of Sears Roebuck and Co.-founded by Richard W. Sears, a former railroad-station agent, and Alvah Roebuck, a watch repairman -was four years old and prospering...