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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much less. These are the people who make options available from the stocks in their portfolios. To find them, Filer, Schmidt and the nation's 20 other put and call dealers turn to investment trusts, pension funds and individual portfolio holders who intend to hold their stock for long periods. For selling a put or call the stockholder receives a premium ranging from $112.50 on 100 shares and up, depending on the price of the stock and length of the option. Usually those who sell puts and calls offer them at different prices and for varying periods, thus lessen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Put, Call & Win | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...puzzlers into his works, Joyce replied: "To occupy my critics for 300 years." Richard Ellmann, professor of English at Northwestern University, worked a mere seven years on this huge biography, but its great and fascinating merit is that it demystifies Joyce without debunking him. It will be read as long as James Joyce is read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dublin's Prodigal Son | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...unsettling factor is the long-standing Cambridge tradition that no mayor serve more than one term until all Councillors have had their chance. Hence, present Mayor McNamara, and former Mayors Lynch, De Gugilelmo, and Crane, all would have to buck this custom to gain the Mayor's post...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: Four C.C.A. Incumbents Win City Council Seats | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

This question concerns tactics as well as strategy. Even members of the Administration have said that Harvard has no excuse for opposing the loyalty affidavit as long as it accepts the NSF fellowships. Furthermore, if the NSF oath is ever to be repealed, the change will have to be part of a larger crusade, for, by itself, the NSF issue is of little importance to most of the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSF and the Affidavit | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Justice must be tempered by realism. It would be profoundly unjust to prevent students already holding grants or fellowships from renewing them, for many have planned their education around these funds. But as long as the NSF affidavit remains, it will serve as a dangerous precedent. Any sort of participation in the NSF program at this time serves to support the very affirmation of belief which Harvard so vigorously protests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSF and the Affidavit | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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