Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holes & Meteors. The apparent scarcity of seas on the far side of the moon will keep moon experts theorizing for many years. The seas are really flat, low plains filled with dust or lava. They must have been formed rather late in the moon's history, because few meteor craters pit their surfaces. Astronomer Gerard Kuiper of the University of Chicago thinks that the seas were made by the impact of asteroids up to 90 miles in diameter, which blasted great holes in the crust at a time when the moon's interior was hot and plastic. Dark...
...today's market, where 90% in cash must be put up to buy stocks, put and call options have a new allure. They enable speculators to maintain a position in stocks for as little as 5% of the stock's market value at the time of purchase. This year such options will account for trading of about 8,000,000 shares, nearly 1% of all the shares traded on the N.Y. Stock Exchange annually...
...loses the amount he paid for the option. While puts and calls are primarily used for speculating, they are also being used more to limit losses, protect paper profits, and for tax advantages. Primarily, they are for the stock market sophisticate who can afford to lose the premiums he must pay to speculate...
Back to Abnormal. Authority collapses in the persons of the warden and the chaplain; there is nothing left but the tainted and ambiguous influence of the psychologist, who must bargain for peace and the lives of the guards. Before the insurrection is over, one man has been tortured and two cons are dead (killed by their fellows because they tried to spoil the gratuitous beauty of the riot with an attempt at escape...
...line must be drawn between those affidavits of belief which the University will accept and those which it will not, President Pusey's decision to continue administration of all National Science Foundation fellowships was a wise one. But the foundations of this decision made by Faculty vote last Tuesday conflict with the University's entire rationale in dealing with the National Defense Education...