Word: indexer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when rates jump-as mortgage lenders agreed they surely will. A more immediate reaction came on the New York Stock Exchange, where the Dow-Jones industrial average fell 11.56 points in the week's final trading session. The drop not only erased earlier gains, but left the bellwether index at 897.65, an 8.04-point loss for the week...
...April 10. Even with trading cut to three days by suspensions for Martin Luther King's funeral and Good Friday, the Dow-Jones industrial average rose 39.88 points to make a two-week gain of 65.02. It was the sharpest rally of the decade, and it hoisted the index of 30 blue-chip industrial shares to 905.69, highest since Jan. 9, wiping out nearly all the losses that followed the Viet Cong Tet offensive and the great gold rush...
These are the only major Federal gun laws on the books. The NRA often points to them as examples of "responsible" gun legislation. If ineffectiveness is an index of responsibility, the NRA is right. The National Firearms Act did cut down the number of machine guns in circulation, but latter-day Al Capones have had little trouble finding substitutes...
...best index of the conflict's new phase is the casualty rates. The allies have been killing more of the enemy-55,000 since Tet-but they have also been losing more of their own men in the skirmishes that mark the harsher new character of the war. Though U.S. battle deaths dipped to 349 last week, they had been reaching record rates-sometimes above 500 weekly-since the Communist offensive...
...could have been worse. When the U.C.L.A. lead reached an astonishing 44 points with 5 min. to go, Wooden mercifully removed his starters one by one. Alcindor left with 2:04 to play, and raised his long right arm high in the air with the index finger extended to signify No. 1. Who could argue? Said Houston Coach Guy Lewis: "That was the greatest exhibition of basketball I've ever seen in my life...