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...about two hours the average slipped, as it has every time the record has been threatened in the past. Then, like a long-distance runner sprinting those last yards toward the tape, the market surged ahead by 20 points in the final hour. When the closing bell rang amid the boisterous cheers of the floor traders, the Dow had climbed to an alltime high of 1065.49. The rise of 43.41 points on the day was also a new record, eclipsing the 38.81-point increase of last...
...bells rang again unintentionally...
...dream, alas, was never more than just that--a dream. But The Who were always an impossible-to-ignore reality. In concert, Pete and the boys for years stood unsurpassed. Typically, the auditorium would go dark just as the first, hesitant synthesizer notes of "Baba O'Riley" rang out. Then power guitar chords and lights came simultaneously, and everyone would see Townshend bashing away frantically at his Gibson SG. Finally, Daltrey would swagger in from stage right, throwing his mike toward the audience in ever increasing arcs only to grab it at the very last possible second and sing from...
...adage about politics and bed-fellows rang true yet again this week, when Edward J. King supported Michael S. Dukakis in his quest to become Massachusetts' next governor. The bitter ideological and personal rivalry goes back to 1978, when King unseated Dukakis--who was governor at the time--in the Democratic primary. At a Statehouse press conference Thursday. King announced. "I will support the Democratic ticket. Michael Dukakis is on that ticket." The lame duck governor went on to say he would not campaign in the next five weeks...
...doing some horse trading up here, and he's got to have a commitment. I want it now. "Still Hartnett refused. As the voting bells rang, Hartnett headed for the floor. At 5:49, two minutes after voting began, one of the President's men implored Hartnett to come to the rescue if the vote was close. Five minutes into the voting, a conservative colleague asked him to cast a no vote. "I really don't know what I'm going to do," insisted Hartnett. Then, with less than a minute to go, the Congressman stood...