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...Washington, embarrassed Administration officials conceded that the budget surpluses they had predicted for fiscal 1970 and 1971 will turn to deficits. On Wall Street, the most unnerving stock market reports since the Depression 1930s became daily more dismal. The Dow-Jones industrial average fell 40 points to a new seven-year low of 662; during the past 18 months, it has plunged more than 320 points...
...October 1929, or even May 1962, nothing overly dramatic happened. Trading was light to moderately heavy, ranging daily between 6,650,000 and 14,570,000 shares on the New York Stock Exchange. Yet by Thursday afternoon the barometric Dow-Jones industrial average had fallen 33 points to a seven-year low of 685. On Friday, prices rallied briskly enough to send the Dow average up 17 points to 702. The rise stirred some cautious chatter among brokers and analysts that the market might be, in Wall Street's convoluted jargon, "bottoming...
...stock market skidded to a new seven-year low again yesterday. Analysts attributed the plunge to investor anxiety over the war, domestic unrest, continuing inflation, and federal budget deficits...
...friendship of the king when he had been appointed leader of the Church of England. His position gave him influential leverage in the politics of the era and weighted his every action toward the direction of history. Eliot's play opens with Becket's return to England after a seven-year exile in France and closes with his murder at the hands of the King's soldiers. It is the study of a man who has the choice of deciding his own fate, or submitting himself to the will of the inevitable, the will of his God. His torment lies...
Leary faces additional sentencing on April 15 from an earlier conviction of ten misdemeanors. Apprehended in Millbrook, N.Y., last year, he faces an additional possible seven-year sentence...