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...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-some dealing in as many as 25 issues, while others work only a single stock. As members of the Exchange, they have the job of making sure that there are always enough orders, both to buy and sell, to keep the market "orderly...
Later, on the fringe of the hubbub in jubilant Winner Moore's dressing room, bigtime pugilism's Monopolist James D. Norris, boss of the International Boxing Club, held court. He allowed that a heavyweight title match, Moore v. Marciano, this fall was not such a bad idea...
...believe in a compassionate personal God and a hereafter complete with resurrection of the body, who should be put away with a minimum of hubbub . . . It is the atheists who should have a little ceremony. For, lacking a belief in God, if they have any moral purpose in life, it must be solely the betterment of and service to their fellow men. It seems to me that some small tribute of remembrance in words and music would be fitting for one who had held the belief that he was returning to the black eternal void whence he came...
...ensuing hubbub, a Republican named Sirri Atalay got up to say that during Turkey's war of liberation against Greece (1922), Menderes had been seen strolling "arm in arm" with a Greek officer. This is the ultimate insult in Turkey: two avenging Democrats leaped up to the rostrum and dragged Atalay down. The fighting continued in the corridors, so the presiding officer hastily recessed the Assembly...
...deflation of the flying-saucer delusion was written by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, who was in charge of the Air Force's careful saucer investigation from 1951 to 1953. It was printed in the May issue of True Magazine, which had much to do with augmenting the saucer hubbub. Captain Ruppelt's conclusion: visiting space ships are theoretically possible, but there has been no evidence to support this possibility...