Word: shared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flight "a matter of survival." Though it accounts for only 1.3% of all U.S. stock transactions, the P-B-W is the third largest of the nation's nine regional securities markets, after the Midwest and Pacific Coast exchanges. More than three-quarters of its annual 45-million-share volume comes from brokers outside Philadelphia. Most of that business involves stocks listed on the big New York exchanges. Says Wetherill: "No broker would do business with us when he could save his customer the 50 a share on the other regional exchanges...
Bitter Brawl. Enter Hughes. His of fer last August of $22 a share, or about $94 million, set off a turbulent board room brawl. Air West Chairman Nick Bez, 73, former head of West Coast and a generous contributor to the Democratic Party in Washington State, spoke for Hughes. Lined up against him were Vice Chairman Edmund Converse, for mer head of Bonanza, and President G. Robert Henry. They insisted that Air West has enormous potential and that the offer, made through the Hughes Tool Co., was far too low. Says Henry: "We're spread over the richest...
...East Germany not long after the war, Fries turns out to be a far more frivolous and cosmopolitan creature. His first novel is officially set in Leipzig, Fries and his characters, though, seem to belong to the new international Brüderschaft of the educated, disenchanted young, who uneasily share pop culture and rock music with peers from Vladivostok to Valpara...
Altogether there are about twenty bits, so a good deal of ground is covered in the much too short session. Some of the sketches are not as funny as others, but the great majority of them have a generous share of gags. Many fresh comic observations are brought to such topics as topless restaurants, Anglo-French rivalry, State Department press conferences, senility and even C. P. Snow ("known to writers as a scientist and known to scientists as a writer"). One of the longest and funniest monologues is that of a BBC-television sports broadcaster, who corrects an error...
...ROTC unit on the Harvard campus. Harvard men would not have this opportunity to serve their country's armed forces with honor and distinction, as commissioned officers, in the tradition of Harvard excellence. Harvard as an institution would not be able to uphold its proud reputation for supplying its share of leadership to the broad spectrum of our national institutions...