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...California and Jersey Standard), chemicals (Du Pont, Union Carbide and Allied Chemical) and, of course, A.T. & T., the world's largest corporation. Because all the Dow industrials have large numbers of shares outstanding, it takes substantial sums from investors to push their prices up more than a mite. Many Wall Street analysts thus took last week's recovery as a signal of renewed confidence by big institutional investors in basic industry. If the rally continues, its momentum could well give the whole economy a psychological lift...
...highest weekly volume on record: 57,386,715 shares. By two of the most broadly based barometers, Big Board stocks rose close to their alltime peaks. The N.Y.S.E. composite index of all common stock issues rose from $50.91 to $51.60, an 18% gain since December 30, only a mite below its May 8 summit of $51.93. Standard & Poor's 500-stock index moved up from $91.69 to $92.74, compared with its May 8 record of $94.58; it is up 18% for the year so far. The more familiar Dow-Jones industrial average gained 13 points to 882.05, up only...
...Mother of God. Hunter scarcely gives her a motion until her third appearance, when she shows up outside a magnificently imposing Widener Library, takes Lerner's arm, and leads him away without betraying a flicker of interest in her own action. Usually, there is an obvious gulf (sometimes a mite too obvious) between her and Lerner or between her and the camera's eye. It is achieved by a variety of techniques: camera angles, simple positioning, and just plain props like the bookstore window in her second appearance or the long dinner table of her eighth...
...trip, Michèle encountered the Viet Cong only once-on Christmas Day. Cheerfully pointing to herself, she kept repeating "Phap," the Vietnamese word for French. The startled Viet Cong gave her a cup of tea and sent her on her way. The incident may have left her a mite overconfident. When military officers at De Due warned her not to proceed any farther along Highway 1 because North Vietnamese regiments were thought to be in the vicinity, she blithely disregarded them...
...cover portrait of Bennett Cerf, his head below a truncated M, gives him somewhat the appearance of a horned owl, a symbol of wisdom not inappropriate, though Mr. Cerf is a mite less taciturn...