Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back to Old Ways. Even cigarettes without filters are less hazardous nowadays. The researchers learned this in an odd way: fewer of their test mice have been developing cancers. At first they thought this might be caused by a difference in mice or in laboratory methods. Then they learned that it was because manufacturers are using different types of tobacco...
...Odd Sounds. While Ray Stark was worrying about these things, Funny Girl opened in Boston and bombed. Writer Isobel Lennart began rewriting, Composer Jule Styne wrote twice as many songs as were finally used, and on the road $30,000 worth of sets were thrown away. Isobel Lennart wrote 42 versions of the last scene alone. The cost of the show eventually climbed beyond $600,000. The date of its New York opening was changed four times. Five weeks before the New York opening, Garson Kanin was no longer directing, and Jerome Robbins...
Classicist, philosopher, novelist, essayist, memoirist, journalist, diarist (170-odd volumes of notebooks repose in Houghton Library)--and so much more. Above all he strove to be a 20th-century Periclean Hellene; and his whole life was indeed a paragon of the ancient Greek arete...
...example, Funston's Big Board tightened its standards for corporate listings, and recently it toughened rules covering market letters and brokerage research departments. But that is not nearly enough for the SEC. Among other things, it wants to: 1) reduce the commissions that investors pay for trading in "odd lots"-fewer than 100 shares; 2) formally order the Exchange's stock "specialists" to buy when stocks are dropping and sell when they are rising sharply in order to soften price swings; and 3) severely restrict or abolish the Exchange's floor traders, who buy and sell...
Since there are only 34 fulltime floor traders, many Wall Streeters wonder why the Exchange is fighting so hard for so few. Funston & Co. figure that surrendering too easily there would make it easier for the SEC to put restrictions on odd-lot firms and the 350 stock specialists. The Exchange wants to regulate itself as much as possible, feels that the SEC's proposed restrictions would give Washington immense controls over Wall Street and destroy the delicate balance of power now shared by the SEC and the Exchange...