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...baffling speed with which events unfolded remains a vivid memory, even for those who can't recall the excitement on campus. Professor of Government Samuel H. Beer, for example, remembers only his relief over the blockade plan plan, "considering that at first people had talked of bombing the hell out of Cuba....Things came across so fast that there really wasn't time to react...
...action, daily volume this year had been averaging about 52.3 million shares. The week's total volume of 455 million shares shattered the old record of 329 million set in March. In fact, more shares were sold last week than in the entire year of 1953. Said Samuel Kachel, a broker with Merrill Lynch, who was still answering his phone late on Friday: "I'm tired as all hell. This was an exceptional week...
...espionage is hardly a new phenomenon. Since earliest times, in fact, it has been a source of fear and the cause of extraordinary precautions. The ancient Chinese were so eager to preserve the secret of silkmaking that they prescribed death by torture for revealing it to outsiders. In 1790 Samuel Slater evaded English laws against exporting textile manufacturing plans by memorizing the layout of a mill to build the first cotton-yarn factory in America...
DIED. Patrick Magee, 58, Irish actor who gave broguish voice to Samuel Beckett's muse (Krapp 's Last Tape and several other Beckett plays were written with him in mind) and a 1966 Tony winner for his Marquis de Sade in the Royal Shakespeare Company's New York City production of Marat/Sade; of a heart attack; in London. Magee supported his stage art by playing film heavies, most recently a Colonel Blimpish Olympic Committee member in 1981's Chariots of Fire...
...DIED. Samuel M. Kootz, 83, foresighted art dealer and paladin of abstract expressionism in America; in New York City. Kootz helped to define the emerging school by showing such artists as Robert Motherwell, Hans Hofmann, Carl Holty, Fritz Glarner and Adolph Gottlieb. As a critic and author, Kootz griped about American artists who poured "their ideas into the same corny molds." By contrast, he wrote of the abstract expressionists' works: "Dramatically personal, each painting contains part of the artist's self, this revelation of himself in paint being a conscious revolt from our Puritan heritage...