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...firemen. Into the confusion raced fire department officials to begin a lengthy investigation. And all the while, from Grand Central Station and from stations to the north of the accident, came more trains, of the New York Central as well as the New Haven (they share some of the heaviest loaded trackage) until the cars were strung out like sausages and some 60,000 hapless commuters were involved...
...dusty Dhahran was built by the U.S. at the end of World War II, and improved since then to take the heaviest jets. It has been used by the U.S.A.F. mainly as a refueling and repair base. Under the agreement with the King, no U.S. combat aircraft could be stationed at Dhahran, and many other circumscriptions placed upon use of the base made its value questionable. Particularly nettling was Saudi Arab insistence that the Air Force must not station any Jewish airmen at Dhahran...
...throughout the week, the Dow-Jones tape fell well behind the flood of transactions ; on one occasion it was running 18 minutes late. In the confusion, the Dow-Jones News Service was reduced to asking brokers on the floor what was happening. The surprising answer: not much. Despite the heaviest volume (5,830,000 shares on one day) since the Eisenhower heart attack of 1955, the averages did not budge more than a few points a day. At week's end, by gradual steps, the Dow-Jones industrials had edged up 15.97 points to close the week...
Despite continued bad business news and the gloomy tone of President Kennedy's State of the Union message, the stock market last week spurted ahead in the broadest trading in history and the heaviest volume in many months, gained nine points for the week to bring the DowJones industrial average up to 652. Said one Wall Street broker: "The market is full of hope...
...despite his desire to appoint Fulbright, no one knew better than Kennedy that Fulbright has one great debit. One of the heaviest responsibilities of the new Secretary of State will be in dealing with restive African nations-and Fulbright, though no racist, is a political segregationist who remained conspicuously silent during the Little Rock school crisis in his home state...