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...NIGHT PROMOTERS will find it harder to float stock under new SEC rules. Commission, which formerly exempted stock issues of $300,000 or less from its full-disclosure regulations, will withhold exemption from all brokers with record of SEC violations, require more detailed information on small issues of new companies that showed no profit in one of two previous years...
...search of a truly different type of drink, invaded the Harvard Faculty Club and the Cambridge Elks Club this week. They made off with whiskey and ice cream, as well as a small amount of cash, and appeared on the verge of creating a new drink, the whiskey float...
...Flicker of Flame." Said Pilot Hancox later: "There was a flicker of flame from under the right wing. Then it became a ball of fire and he fell. I followed him down and dropped a float light in the middle of the burning gasoline, and began to sweep the area. I would have landed if I had spotted anybody. I didn't drop parachute flares because the moon and the fire itself gave me plenty of light...
Adlai Stevenson's float through the air pointed up the serious problems involved in negotiating such political acrobatics. His strongest support in Florida's primary came largely from the violently segregationist Third Congressional District in the northwest (Tallahassee). There, Stevenson's supporters, including veteran (eight terms) U.S. Representative Robert L. F. ("Daddy") Sikes, campaigned hard for their candidate as a man the South can trust on the race issue. The locals called in Mississippi's Political Strategist Sam Wilhite, who was a key manager in U.S. Senator James Oliver Eastland's campaign, to help Stevenson...
...learn. But he was willing. He ran up and down the deep rows of seats in Duke stadium to build up his stamina and improve his balance. "Balance is everything," he says-and when he is going well, he is so perfectly poised that he seems to float over the cinders. He is also incredibly relaxed during a meet, a quality he attributes to his dancing to bebop music whenever he can. "A good bop keeps you nice and loose. If I go out and bop, I feel O.K. the next...