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Wall Street seemed sure that the lat est split-like the six others in the past eleven years-was not about to break the trend. Having risen $63 between the board's January proposal of the split and last week's stockholders' meeting, IBM's stock jumped another $10.50 in four days to close the week at a record $688-an extraordinary 59 times 1967 earnings. And why not? After the last split, a 3-for-2 deal in 1966, when the stock was trading around $370, IBM shares took only eight months to 1) weather...
...Peking last week, bringing crocuses to the Imperial Pal ace gardens and Mao-jacketed revolutionaries back into the streets. After a long and severe winter, the city echoed again to the feet of 100,000 mass marchers, who tromped around for two days straight chanting insults at the lat est round of "ambitious right-wingers" - the term invariably used against the enemies of Chairman Mao Tse-tung. This time, there was one significant change. The targets of the taunts, far from being right-wingers, were three top lieutenants of Lin Piao, China's leftist Defense Minister and the heir...
...wisdom that grow stronger as the years pass by, despite the fact that their styles may seem passe. Two cases-in point are Rene Magritte and Max Ernst, remnants of the surrealist tide that swept Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. Ernst, at 76, is exhibiting his lat est sculptures at the lolas Gallery in Paris. Magritte, who died last August at 68, is being honored in his native Brussels with a retrospective that in cludes eight new sculptures designed before and executed after his death...
...Lat, the resort spot built by the French and still appreciated...
...politicos and generals use it for their R & R and there are serious reports that VC higher-ups vacation here too. The unnatural quiet of this place almost becomes repugnant--all you have to do is read the Saigon Post or listen to the radio to know that Da Lat is leading a charmed life. IVS hired an excellent old gentleman to tutor us for six and a half hours a day, a Mr. Thanh, Paris-educated and clothed in a French suit, beret and scarf...