Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only 13 of the 309 drivers finished the race. Burkel, his face and neck covered with red blotches of frostbite, won the overall title and $3,000 of the total $20,000 in prize money with a time of 17 hrs. 46 min. and 36 sec. His reaction to the race was the understatement of the week: "This weather you have here is something else...
...spectacle of the CEP's attempt to take what was for the H-RPC (and for many on the SFAC and HUC) the moral question of the academic inappropriateness of ROTC to a university, and convert it into the amoral question of the academic insufficiency of ROTC courses. (Sec, for instance, the relatively indignant press release of the chairmen of the three committees after their press conference with Ford, just before the Paine Hall demonstration...
...Exchange Commission to reconsider, the nation's stock exchanges decided to switch from Wednesday closings, in effect since June 12, to shorter hours. Five-day-a-week trading, with closings at 2 p.m. instead of 3:30 in New York, will resume this week. Some brokers share the SEC's fears that the most severe effects of the paperwork jam are yet to be felt. Industry leaders, however, insist that the new system will reduce operational troubles faster than...
...from new money, the lifeblood of any mutual fund, Mates was unusually vulnerable to a crisis. That came two weeks ago, when the SEC halted trading of a lively over-the-counter stock that had been one of Mates' big winners. The SEC cited "possibly misleading" information about the stock-Omega Equities Corp.-which had been bid up from 40? a share in January to $35 in November. It last traded at $25, which means that the 300,000 shares that Mates had bought in July for just under $1,000,000 now account for about...
...SEC had long been quietly investigating Omega. It is a reincarnation of a New York-based company that all but dropped out of sight years ago, when it operated in real estate under the name of J. M. Tenney Corp. After the firm reappeared in 1967 with its new name, stories about Omega as an "entertainment-field" conglomerate began turning up in the financial pages. According to one tale, it was about to take over 20th Century-Fox. Word of the SEC's investigation of Omega got out to a few well-informed investors, who quickly turned in their...