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Since the over-the-counter market is the birthplace of virtually every new company, investors feel that it gives them the chance to get stock in a growing company before it becomes big time. Dozens of growth stocks, such as Ampex Corp., Polaroid and Texas Instruments, showed their first spark on the over-the-counter market before moving on to the big exchanges. But the market is no mere kindergarten for growth and glamour. It also handles 95% of all Government bonds and most municipal bonds, accounts for almost all bank and insurance stocks, many corporate bonds and Canadian...
...delighted with the write-up of Ancel Keys and his work. He has been a very important pioneer in what we call cardiovascular epidemiological research, really the spark that has helped to set innumerable people working on this important subject...
Gann also recalls the brief nightmare when three engines on a C-54 began to cut out just after he took off from La Guardia. He limped back to the runway-to find that the engineers had fitted his ship with experimental spark plugs, without warning him. Then there was the plane he was flying from Honolulu to Oakland. It vibrated strangely at odd moments. Days later he discovered that if he had slowed down cautiously, he would have surely crashed...
Poetry, as Archibald MacLeish sees it, is a little like a man who shuffles across a familiar rug and touches a doorknob, only to be pricked by an unexpected spark of static electricity. In that instant, two things happen. For one, the man "understands" electricity not as a textbook diagram, but as a felt experience "charged with meaning." For another, three disparate things-the man, the rug, the doorknob-have been fused with one of the cosmic forces. They have become, in MacLeish's view, links in the underlying order at the heart of the universe, which men instinctively...
...captain Larry Johnson, the foil team failed to spark and reversed sabre scores. They lost every exchange. A member of the team commented, "We were not present-minded and did not adapt well to the Cornell fencers...