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Stock traders across the U.S. will be rolling out of bed and into the office half an hour earlier this fall. The New York Stock Exchange is extending its hours to accommodate record levels of investment from Europe and Asia. The move, announced last week, was described as a step toward round-the-clock international trading in American stocks...
...pictures, which were taken in the late 1970s by two New York photographers who had hired Madonna, then an impoverished dancer, as an artist's model (pay: $30 a session). Instead, Guccione purchased the work of another New York photographer, who had paid Madonna $50 for a two-hour sitting in 1978. "Play boy's photos were coarse, uncomplimentary and rather like scraping the bottom of the barrel," said Guccione. Nonsense, says Playboy. Guccione offered at least $100,000 for Playboy's pictures, but the photographers turned him down. "Guccione is rattling his chains to try to get attention," said...
...shortly after 2 in the morning, and Larry King is just hitting his stride. He has already spent an hour on TV grilling Negotiator Herb Cohen about the hostage crisis in Lebanon, and two more on radio talking with Jonathan Coleman, author of a book about the murder of Utah Millionaire Franklin Bradshaw. Now he is fielding phone calls on any and all subjects from his late-night radio audience. A New Yorker wants to know if the Yankees' recent winning streak might lead to a pennant. ("I don't think their pitching is good enough," King replies...
Sara Delano Roosevelt was in labor more than 24 hours before her 10-lb. son Franklin was born, blue and breathless. The doctor urged that she avoid further pregnancies, which she may have done by totally abstaining from sex. Her dedication to young Franklin was of an intensity bordering on the morbid. She kept him in girlish skirts and long blond curls until he was nearly six. Every hour of his day followed a strict schedule: up at 7, breakfast at 8, lessons from 9 to noon...
...Minuteman IIIs, representing 20% of the total 1,000-lCBM force to which Nixon referred. A Minuteman III travels at more than 15,000 m.p.h. at an altitude of 700 miles. Flying over the Pole, it can reach its target in the Soviet Union in less than half an hour...