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...arena. Secret Service men are checking every pipe, seat and rafter against bombs or snipers' hiding places. Taking antiwar demonstrators at their word, Chicago officials are preparing for every possible disruption at next week's Democratic National Convention. In the process, the nation's second largest city is beginning to take on the appearance of a city under siege...
...largely prevented white men from owning land, the enterprise of black traders and businessmen flourished, based on exports of palm oil and cocoa. Four years before independence, drillers discovered deep pools of oil in the Niger Delta?a strike that within ten years made Nigeria the world's 13th largest oil producer. Nature itself, it seemed, was favoring self-rule...
...crisis began this spring, after local police arrested nine students in a surprise marijuana raid. New Hampshire's largest newspaper, the archconservative Manchester Union Leader, followed with a front-page exposé titled "Bare Debauchery at Franconia College." The newspaper charged that "drugs, alcohol and sex are among the main ingredients of campus life. Naked and drugged or drunken men and women have been seen running through the halls at night, and orgies and nude parties have occurred." The accusations, supposedly based on secret reports from an unidentified informant, probably exaggerated the situation at Franconia. Nonetheless, the attack alarmed...
...patroness, who gave San Francisco one of its finest museums; of pneumonia; in San Francisco. Inspired by Paris' Palace of the Legion of Honor, Mrs. Spreckels built her own $4,000,000 Legion of Honor art museum in 1924 and stocked it with one of the largest collections of Rodins outside France...
...into its massive paperwork pileup. Despite Wednesday trading recesses, which will continue at least for the rest of the month, the problem of undelivered securities and accounting confusion remains so severe that two organizations last week took drastic steps to overcome it. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the largest U.S. securities firm, imposed a "house rule" forbidding its salesmen to sell over-the-counter stocks for customers unless they first have physical possession of the certificates involved. The National Association of Securities Dealers, a trade group which polices the over-the-counter market, drafted a similar rule...