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...Jones industrial average fell today to 5,458.53, losing 44.79 points. Trading was lighter today, totaling 395.02 million shares as compared with 432.38 million in the previous session. The NYSE composite index fell 3.92 to 342.27, and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index fell 7.33 to 640.65. The Nasdaq composite index fell 9.00 to 1,081.71, and the AMEX market value index fell 3.32 to 558.52. In London gold closed...
What will hit the stores in April is an interesting but not quite revolutionary product line. The cameras are lighter and smaller. They print such things as date and location on the back of each picture, not the front, so family fun shots don't look as if they were caught by airport security cameras. Film loading is simplified (drop in a cartridge, shut the camera, the film threads itself), and a button allows you to switch among three image sizes (standard, wider, panorama)--but these are only modest advances over today's models...
Customer traffic was somewhat lighter due to the storm, Etlinger said, although the store "got more local people who didn't want to go very far in the storm...
...house. In Young Woman with a Pitcher, circa 1658-60, the subject holds a gilt water pitcher while opening a casement window whose leaded pane looks just like a 1912 Mondrian apple tree turned on its side. Blue is everywhere: deep ultramarine in her skirt and sleeves, lighter blue in the cloth on the table, whose tone rhymes with the rolling bar of the map on the wall--a recession of precisely judged color echoes. It is also reflected in the pitcher, whose basin gathers beneath its rim an exquisitely ordered mosaic of reflections from the tabletop. And then there...
Instead, the show will ask questions about the lighter side of life at Harvard, and the shows' staff have conducted surveys for the past two months...