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...Jones industrial average scored its largest one-day and one-week gams on record, finishing at 869.29, up 81.24 points in only five days. The market had its busiest day ever (132.69 million shares traded) and its second busiest ever (95.9 million shares). Before last week's action, daily volume this year had been averaging about 52.3 million shares. The week's total volume of 455 million shares shattered the old record of 329 million set in March. In fact, more shares were sold last week than in the entire year of 1953. Said Samuel Kachel, a broker...
...previous Friday, brokers came to work on Monday expecting buy orders aplenty. They were not disappointed. By day's end, the widely watched Dow Jones industrial average of 30 of the nation's leading corporations had racked up a 13.51 gain, to 822, its biggest one-day rise since June...
There were other signs that life was getting back to less than buoyant normality in Britain. Workers for the National Health Service called a one-day nationwide strike last week. The London underground was crippled as strikers closed down the entire system. And this week railway workers are planning a walkout that could go on for weeks...
...spite of its record, the Arab world quickly seized the opportunity of the mosque attack to indict Israel for Goodman's desecration. Arab leaders called for a one-day general strike, and introduced a condemnation of Israel into the United Nations Security Council...
...boisterous but non-violent confrontation occurred in front of the office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning, where a Marine officer made a one-day trip to interview seniors interested in the Marine Officer Candidate Course...