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...troubles began in Bhiwandi, a cotton and silk weaving center 35 miles north of Bombay, Maharashtra's capital. Bhiwandi's most prominent Moslems agreed to join Hindus in an anniversary procession honoring the 17th century warrior Shivaji, who is remembered for his rout of the Moslem Moguls who dominated India for over 200 years. So delicate are relationships between the sects that marching slogans had to be approved before the procession started out. All of them were about as inoffensive as LONG LIVE MOTHER INDIA. Midway through the parade, however, a few marchers began to shout scurrilous slogans...
...rally, the drop could have been said to have repealed the entire decade of the Soaring Sixties; on Thursday the Dow average was lower than at the start of 1960.* The Friday rally, to be sure, was more impressive than some others' that have briefly interrupted the long rout; the point rise was the greatest for a single day in two years. Still, some of the jump was attributed to short-covering-that is, buying by traders who had earlier sold borrowed stock in the richly fulfilled hope that the price would drop, and had decided the time...
...would drop-and then a large number of shareholders panicked and dumped their holdings simultaneously, sending prices plummeting on enormous volume. While such a "selling climax" is an unnerving experience, many Wall Streeters would dearly love to see one again. By cleaning out the last doubters in one swift rout, the old-fashioned climax would usually end a bear market and set the stage for a bouncy rally to new highs...
...Cosentino was also outstanding yesterday. "It was one of the best performances by a goalie I've ever seen," said defensive coach Dan Caulderwood. Cosentino made 29 saves, many of them incredible, to keep Brown's exceptional attack from turning the game into a rout...
Hardy finished off the rout with an insurance ??? on a penalty kick late in the game...