Word: floor
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...NATO-and a warning to Hua's critics back home On a dingy street in a working-class arrondissement of Paris, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Mayor Jacques Chirac and China's Chairman and Premier Hua Guofeng (Hua Kuo-feng) climbed to the second floor of the newly repainted Hotel de Godefroy. There they peered briefly into Room 16, where nearly 60 years ago the late Chou En-lai met with fellow Chinese students to thrash out many of the ideas that led eventually to the Communist takeover of the world's most populous nation...
Without hearing a word of what is being said or shouted, any experienced trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange can listen to the hum of voices around him and tell what is happening. An up market has a different pitch from a down market. But old Wall Street hands vividly remember an exception to that rule. One day 50 years ago next week, recalls David Granger, 76, a senior partner at Granger & Co., a Wall Street brokerage house, "there was a hush over the floor that I've never heard since. It was funereal." Indeed...
...body crashed through a skylight and landed in his office. Says he: "It was extremely traumatic." George Fowler, a retired Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. vice president, was a 15-year-old office boy with the old Guaranty Trust Co. when a husband and wife jumped from the 33rd floor of an adjacent building. "Like everybody else, I ran to the window to see what was going on," he says. "It was horrible to see limbs and other body parts strewn around. A jaw was lying in the roadway, and a policeman pushed it with his foot to where the major...
...noon the members of the Big Board's governing committee held a secret meeting in a room under the exchange floor. Cigarettes were lit and the small room filled with smoke. Some members felt the exchange should be closed; others argued that if that happened it would never reopen. The governors did nothing, and by the end of the day $6.7 billion more had been erased from investors' portfolios...
Some organizers predicted privately that protesters would be quickly arrested, adding that the chance of halting trading on the exchange floor was small. "We'll probably sit down and make our point and get taken away," one organizer who asked not to be identified said yesterday...