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...news of President Eisenhower's illness (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) hit Wall Street barely an hour before the opening trading gong. At the first sketchy reports, there was a burst of selling while traders waited anxiously for more complete word on the President's condition. As it came, the market hung on the doctor's bulletins. When news reached Wall Street at midday that Ike was headed for the hospital in an ambulance, there was a rush to sell. The ticker ran five minutes late, and the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 15 points. But later, when...
...Paris, and home again to work with Muralist Anton Refregier and Abstractionist Stuart Davis. Then a summer on Deer Island, off the Maine coast, gave Kienbusch his clue to what he liked to paint best: "The world of many things I love-Maine islands, trees, the sea, fences, gong buoys, churches, roses, mountains...
...beating of drum and gong, 86.4% of the eligible voters in South Viet Nam last week went to the polls to elect the country's first National Assembly. Result: a landslide victory for President Ngo Dinh Diem's National Revolutionary Movement. Despite highhanded campaign regulations that hobbled any organized opposition to Diem, the election was no mere formality. There were many independent candidates in the running. Voters indicated Diem's basic popularity by voting heavily for openly pro-government candidates of whatever party, including Diem's brother and sister-in-law and four of his Cabinet...
...yearning melody in a rhythm that was at once syncopated and plodding. Violinist Oistrakh applied his tight, concise tone to it. He revealed it, at its best, as a line of high eloquence, although sometimes it was merely a dry-throated recitation. Later, the movement rose to a shuddering gong-burst of sound, and both orchestra and soloist glided into a barely comprehensible maneuver that slid to a high, fine-drawn conclusion...
...Gongs & Shouts. At the opening gong at 10 a.m., the arena-like floor of the New York Stock Exchange was in turmoil; 2,000 brokers, clerks and messengers milled around the 18 trading posts. Many stocks that were not widely traded opened on schedule. But for many of the popular blue-chip stocks, which have led the bull market rise, an opening was impossible. About each post gathered knots of worried men anxiously awaiting buyers for the thousands of shares of stock they had orders to sell. At the center of the hubbub were the specialists who handle the stocks...