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...Curb Exchange, which got its name and first fame as an open-air securities market, last week seemed due for a change. The Curb's governing board decided the old name was "no longer indicative" of the Curb's prestige, since it now handles one-fourth the volume of the Stock Exchange and is the biggest U.S. market for foreign securities. Effective Jan. 5, if members agree, the Curb will become the American Stock Exchange...
Revolution. The Seventh Congress (Petrograd, 1918), held five months after the Revolution, was the first open-air assembly of the triumphant party. It put "Communist" into the party's title (in full: "Russian Communist Party of Bolsheviks"). This meeting, and the next three, set up these revolutionary milestones: 1) the Red army; 2) the "New Economic Policy," a temporary retreat from state ownership of industry and trade, permitting some private enterprise; 3) the Comintern, Communism's international...
...Bridgeport, Conn. Stevenson began a motor trip which took him through New Haven and the mill towns of the Naugatuck River Valley. Braving drizzly weather, the Democratic candidate made brief, open-air speeches in nearly every town through which he passed. Repeatedly he ridiculed Republican criticisms of his quip-studded speeches and hammered away at the Eisenhower-Taft alliance. He warned the staunch Democrats of industrial New Britain: "If the Republicans by some mischance are elected this fall, people calling the White House would have to ask which President is in today: the five-star general from Kansas...
Last week, at their leader's invitation, 30,000 members of K.A.U. attended an open-air meeting in the dusty village of Nyeri, 100 miles north of Nairobi. Those who wore hats were asked to take them off because, Kenyatta explained, hats are a symbol of the white man's rule. In an impassioned speech, he pressed one demand : "The whites must give Kenya back to us Africans!" Then, while white Kenyans hollered for his arrest, Mr. Kenyatta quietly tucked his ebony walking stick under his arm, walked home to his nearby bungalow and settled down...
...emergency, Berliners (88% Protestant) rallied to help their fellow Christians. Berlin's famed Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius threw open the Marienkirche, the principal Protestant church in the city, to the Catholic meetings. He took Munich's Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph Wendel as a guest in his own home. At open-air Masses in the Walbühne. Catholics worshiped before the same cross used by Protestants at last year's Evangelical Kirchentag. At Berlin's Funkturm fairgrounds, Protestant Pastor Lothar Kreyssing addressed the packed Catholic gathering and got the most thunderous applause...