Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...closing bell sounded at the New York Stock Exchange last Friday, floor brokers ended one of the more somnolent sessions of 1967: a mere 8,130,000 shares changed hands. Only last year, volume like that would have meant headlines. But no longer-for Friday's bell also rang out the biggest, fastest trading quarter in Big Board history...
...consistency. His profound curiosity seems to have been with him from the start. His intellectual style, the way he arrived at ideas and put them into practice?a process often awesome in its intensity?hardly changed over a career that spanned 45 years. Even what he wrote in college rang no note of dissonance with the utterances of his later life. His deeply felt views about religion, country, freedom and society, though they broadened and became more complex, seemed to be present in microcosm during his childhood...
Arnie's enterprises are just about as far flung as Arnie's Army-with headquarters in Cleveland, major offices in Los Angeles, Manhattan and Pleasantville, N.J., as well as branches as far away as Tokyo. Palmer's businesses rang up respectable sales of nearly $15 million last year from buffs who like to stay in Palmer motels, learn the game from Palmer books, practice on the Palmer driving ranges and putting greens, relax to Palmer records, wear Palmer clothes and get them pressed at Palmer dry cleaners...
...Manhattan's modestly housed Commodity Exchange, some 60 brokers pressed around the mahogany rail circling a sunken trading pit as a bell rang promptly at 9:50 a.m. "March," intoned the exchange's trading superintendent, Patrick J. White, from his elevated perch at the edge of the ring. "Ninety," shouted Herbert Coyne of the commodity firm of Rayner & Stonington Inc. "Sold," cried Robert Marcus of Imperial Commodities Corp. A beige-jacketed clerk chalked the figure on a blackboard...
...phone rang in NBC's Washington studio just as Correspondent Ray Scherer wrapped up a Today show interview with Ambassador-at-Large Averell Harriman. Scherer picked it up only to catch an earful of criticism. "You didn't look as good as he did," the caller complained. "The lighting on you wasn't good." Scherer's critic was neither his wife nor Today's New York producer -it was Lyndon Johnson...