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...weeks since the turning point of the Cuban crisis, U.S. stock markets have staged the sharpest rally in their history. Prices of the shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange have risen $50 billion. The Dow-Jones industrial index, which closed last week at 652.10, now stands 116 points above its 1962 low and only 83 points short of the alltime high that it hit last December. Why the rally? And how long will it last...
...time, I didn't either; as someone behind me remarked, "Wow! Look at all those legs!" But there were occasions, all in Act I, when even I and my anonymous correspondent two rows back had silently to agree that some of the positions she assumed should remain in the index of the Kama Sutra...
...divorce and an affair; a business coup and a business risk. The sense of life that Woody talks about when he reaches 40 disappears from our sight...too bad. One wife or another is not made to seem very important, actually. By an irony the play emphasizes the financial index of success: precisely because Howard Da Silva is the most vivid human being we see, and because the success of the Business is vital to him, the audience finds itself rooting very hard for the commercial vindication of Miss Julie Lingerie, Inc., or whatever it was called...
...therefore explained the improving scores on College Boards as an index of greater achievement and more hard mark in high school. "The SAT is very each like the chemistry achievement test, with the difference that it measures 12 years of work instead...
...office does no prosecuting itself, simply passes its findings on to justice authorities in each Land. Because the research and indexing tasks are immense, many of the prosecutions are a decade or more late, but, says Schüle hopefully, "one thing leads to another." Thus, when Central Office agents were interrogating a onetime SS leader, the name "Heuser" kept cropping up in connection with terror against Jews near the Russian city of Minsk. But "Heuser" meant nothing until the Central Office cross index turned up the grisly testimony of a witness at the Nurnberg trials who recalled that...