Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roaming the city in small commando units, some on motor scooters with girl friends behind, they forced shopkeepers out of stores, stopped buses and trolleys, ordering passengers to descend, poured into post offices, telling employees to quit or be beaten up. Police looked on. The riot fever reached its peak following the burial of Singer Carmen Ramos. Some 1,500 teen-agers started back to town after the ceremony, shouting "Algeria is French!"-"Death to the Assassins!" Joined by other Europeans-gangs of poor Italians and Spaniards from the working-class district of Bab el Oued and members...
...point fraction of the day's loss, then climbed steadily higher on each successive day. At week's end the average stood at 511.79, up 6.16 points to a new high for the year, and within easy range of the historic 521 peak set in April...
...between novelists and the business world-a highly tentative affair at best-may be going pfffft. The hero of From the Dark Tower deserts his executive suite in Manhattan and his split-level home in the suburbs to fish for his soul in the shade of a Rocky Mountain peak. The hero of The Durable Fire undergoes the equivalent of a deathbed conversion before he can regain his faith in the corporate way of life. Both men sing the organizational blues, to wit, Big Business is too much like Big Brother...
...them on the black market for a tenfold profit, Bolivians shop from plentiful stocks. The free price of bread and meat is about one-third the old black rate. Farm production will be up 59% by the end of the year. The boliviano has come down from its crazy peak of 13,000 to the dollar, and has been averaging...
...stood him less well at home after World War II. He guided I.T. & T. into domestic manufacturing, lost money. Sharply challenging his iron rule in 1947, a stockholders' group gradually forced Behn upstairs to board chairman. Last year at 74, Behn finally retired with I.T. & T. back at peak earning power (1956 sales: $501 million). Last week at 75, Global Businessman Behn died in Manhattan...