Word: marches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...networks ran films showing the passionate rhetoric of King during the Washington march and at Mem his just a day before the killing. The most stirring commentary to follow those pictures ame from NBC's Chet Huntley, who tilted his head away from the camera, battled back tears and said: "Again we are made to look like a nation of killers. Restraint, gentleness and chanty, virtues we so desperately need, have had a dark...
...rush. More important, said brokers, mutual funds moved into the market: at the end of February (the latest available official figures) the funds had $3.4 billion in cash, or 8.2% of their assets, as compared with a normal ratio of 5% or 6%. Some analysts believe that March saw a buildup to $10 billion cash...
...kind occurred. Trading was comparatively light, and the price of gold fell from $38 per oz. at the opening to $36.70, then edged up to $37 at week's end. On the Continent, where gold brought as much as $44 per oz. at the height of the March gold rush, the price dropped last week in phase with that in London; nowhere did it vary more than 50? per oz. from the British quotations...
Even if the South Africans do so, Swiss bankers last week insisted that they can challenge London's long supremacy in the market. Their customers siphoned off some $2 billion worth of gold from London between the mid-November devaluation of the pound and the mid-March closing of the gold pool, when the U.S. and six other countries stopped selling gold to the private market. That huge supply, equal to about two years' South African output, must remain the key source of bullion for free-gold trading for some time...
...letter is dated March 26, but was mailed Wednesday. An insert, pointing to the recent peace overtures in Vietnam, says, "The war remains morally and politically indefensible; the draft is still a terrible reality. We continue to believe that opposition to the draft is an honest and direct response to the choices forced upon each...