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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Macmillan himself, harking back to an old description of Hugh Gaitskell as "a desiccated calculating machine," gleefully cracked: "I still think he is rather desiccated, but his reputation as a calculator is gone with the wind. His promises are the gambler's last throw." "There have been a number of personal attacks on me," said Gaitskell, "but I don't complain." "I complain," Mrs. Gaitskell piped up. In his best parade-ground manner, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, no candidate but deep in the battle, barked: "Anybody who votes Labor should be locked up in a lunatic asylum...
...characters who had surrounded Van Doren during his 14-week climb toward his $129,000 winnings on NBC's Twenty One told the subcommittee that the show was blatantly rigged until NBC bounced it off the air a year ago. The crassness of the deceit, the number of people involved and the relative gullibility or negligence of network executives were startling...
Underlying the SEC's new problems is the fantastic growth of the U.S. stock market. From a value of $34 billion when the SEC began, stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange are now worth nearly $350 billion. In the past seven years alone, the number of shareholders has doubled from 6,000,000 to 12,500,000. New corporate issues, which amounted to only about $400 million in the 1930s, now total more than $16 billion annually...
...shop.* Most boiler shops are hit-and-run operations that fold up before the SEC can swing into action. But in the past year the commission, largely through its New York regional office under Paul Windels Jr., has cracked down hard. In fiscal 1959, the SEC's total number of injunctions against brokers and security dealers doubled over the previous year to in, and its number of criminal actions tripled to 45. "We'd do more," says SEC Chairman Edward N. Gadsby, "but we're limited in staff and have to concentrate on only the most important...
...Mistake." Undisturbed by this, Miraglia went to Havana, checked into the Habana Hilton. On his story that he had "lost" his credit card, proved by showing a shoe store receipt with the credit-card number, he cashed $850 in checks to cover his hotel bills, and flew back to New York. While trying to cash a $120 check at the Plaza, he was recognized, arrested, booked for grand larceny...