Word: sec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rather successful day outside," announced Mission Control laconically. That was something of an understatement. For 6 hr. 34 min. 35 sec. last week, two of the three Skylab 3 astronauts, Air Force Lieut. Colonel William Pogue and Physicist Edward Gibson, worked outside their giant orbital station, set up cosmic-ray detectors, made repairs and prepared to take their first good look at Comet Kohoutek. The Thanksgiving Day walk in space, longer by 3 min. 2 sec. than the record jaunt of the Skylab 2 astronauts, marked an auspicious beginning for a historic journey: the last and, NASA hopes, longest...
College Football. Alabama vs. LSU from the snakepit in Baton Route, La. The Crimson Tide seeks a third straight SEC championship. CH. 5. 6:30 p.m. Color. Live...
According to the SEC, Smith and some associates devised a complex scheme to convert Westgate's most profitable assets to their own use. Smith supposedly 1) allowed the conglomerate to buy up companies of questionable value at grossly inflated prices, 2) transferred control of the acquisitions to other parts of his financial machine, and 3) used these grossly inflated assets to secure huge loans from U.S. National. In other instances, Smith is charged with selling solid Westgate holdings at bargain prices to other companies under his control and financing the deals with loans from the bank...
...sport usually associated with big bruisers in black leather. Last year he won ten of the eleven major national drag races in the pro-stock class. At the American Hot Rod Association meet in St. Louis two months ago, he thundered down the quarter-mile strip in 8.97 sec., an all-time record. Ten days later in Epping, N.H., he clocked 8.93 sec. He only placed second last week at the N.H.R.A. world-championship meet in Amarillo, Texas, but Jenkins is still on his way to another winning season...
Wall Street brokers greeted the SEC ruling with understandable enthusiasm, since the new rate is expected to pump $150 million worth of commissions into their pockets over the six-month period. Some remain opposed to the negotiable rates later on, but a majority of security dealers have concluded that such variable charges are the only way to stimulate new investor interest. The need for new business is all too obvious. Last week the New York Stock Exchange laid off 55 employees, its third staff cutback in the past year. The word from the American Stock Exchange was almost as dreary...