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...hope. The dark, hollowed look and manner of the original Nicholas, Roger Rees, better suggested the character's boundless disillusionment. As Nicholas' battered Dotheboys friend Smike, David Threlfall was recognizably a victim of cerebral palsy, lame and inarticulate, whose great soul struggled to overcome his infirmities. His successor, John Lynch, skitters and jibbers in an otherworldly fashion that never resembles any sympathy-evoking affliction...
...close the week at 1900.87, up 15.61 for the four trading days. The Dow is now more than 350 points higher than it was at the start of the year. Main reason for recent gains: investors foresee further declines in interest rates. Robert Farrell, chief market analyst at Merrill Lynch, expects that stocks will suffer a temporary setback in the coming months, but he says that the Dow may hit 2500 before the birth of the next bear market...
...novel's hero, of a sort, turns out to be Benton Lynch, nephew of the bald Jeeter, son of the fat Jeeter, and a lad who "could not ever rise much above cipherdom." The author, of course, elaborates: "He was not blatantly stupid or outright idiotic. There was not anything blatant or outright about him, not anything at all. He mostly simply was not." What Benton does possess, it turns out, is a taste for armed robbery and a lecherous hankering after Jane Elizabeth Firesheets, who is willing to overlook his myriad inadequacies for the thrill of sharing a life...
Many investors still expect People Express to survive in some trimmed-down form. Says Peter Lynch, manager of the Fidelity Magellan Fund, which has invested in People from its inception: "They may have to abandon Denver and shrink their company by a third." Nonetheless, he adds, "they're still in a dominant position in New York, the largest market in the country...
Wall Street shares that optimism. When rumors of the sale started flying on Wednesday, ITT stock jumped $4, to $49.37. It closed the week at $54. Still, many industry watchers are taken aback. Quipped Carol Neves, an analyst with Merrill Lynch, to the New York Times: "It's difficult to comprehend an ITT without a telecommunications operation. I asked them what the T's would stand for in their name, and they said, 'toil and trouble...