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...shares-a level that former Exchange President Keith Funston had not expected until 1975. Some of the records being set are disturbing. Margin requirements are presently 70% for most stocks; yet loans from brokers to cover that remaining 30% have now reached a record $5,580 billion, and shrewder speculators can still get loans for as much as 100% of their purchase price from unregulated lenders...
...Cooler, shrewder and no great civil rights advocate at the time, Johnson was soon admitted to the Senate establishment. Despite early differences, the two men became close. "Johnson was the first Southern Senator I could talk to," Humphrey said later. With Johnson as mentor-a facet of their relationship that has held constant-Humphrey learned to make his peace with his elders, to accept compromise and delay as the price of worthwhile legislation. Humphrey's contribution to the partnership was to be Johnson's link to the liberal wing in his drive for a commanding position...
Crackdown on Corruption. Union papers now try to appeal to the whole family by running "ladies' sections." They carry regular columns on cooking, dressmaking, hobbies, social security and travel; the papers of affluent unions run notices for charter flights abroad. As for consumer advice, few commercial papers carry shrewder columnists than Sidney Margolius, whose syndicated pieces tell union members how to spend their union wages. "My wife reads the paper from cover to cover," says a Manhattan machinist. "She's more of a regular reader than...
...rewards are great on the OTC market, so are the risks. The OTC average fell farther than the Dow-Jones in the 1962 market break, took longer to recover. That shock made investors shrewder, and their recent revival of interest indicates that the OTC market has generally become more solid...
...Ussery has learned to use tactics as well as tack. No jockey is shrewder at rating a short-winded speed horse on the lead; few are more accomplished at sitting chilly on a stretch runner, picking the instant to make a move. And when it comes to a photo finish, he knows every trick in the book: flicking a horse gently under the chin to get its head up at the wire, dropping the reins to let the horse's neck stretch out. "I've matured," he says. "With my attitude real sour like it was before...