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...that the bishops "get someone to take you." A few episcopal frowns, of course, were directed at the whole idea. Said the Rt. Rev. Oliver S. Tomkins, 60, Bishop of Bristol: "If there are some visiting bishops who can afford to turn their spare time into such an expensive spree, they could have been left to find out for themselves...
Lifetime Diary. Instead, he made a name for himself with The 400 Blows, a title derived from a French slang expression "faire les 400 coups," meaning "to go on a spree." The movie told the mordant story of a disintegrating childhood that was half autobiography and half poetry. Truffaut later observed that "a director's total work is a diary, kept over a lifetime." This first entry revealed hints of the style that was to follow: despair that could add up to an affirmation of life, poignance that never stooped to self-pity, Mack Sennett farce that could dive...
...paperwork snarl-by a considerable margin the worst in Wall Street history-began when President Johnson's Viet Nam peace moves sent stocks on a spring spree. Since April 1, Big Board trading has averaged 14 million shares a day, up 40% from the first quarter. The smaller American Exchange has been hit by a 50% increase to 7,500,000 shares a day. In consequence, brokers have been unable to deliver stock certificates to customers within the allotted five business days after they are bought or sold. Compounded by increasing clerical errors, the discrepancies and slippages by last...
Speculative Worries. During the last new-issue spree in 1961, small investors were seized by a mania for almost any company with onics in its name-and thousands were burned when the stock market collapsed in 1962. Many brokers contend that the average caliber of companies bringing out stock this year runs considerably higher. Still, there are worries. In a "thin market," the price of speculative securities can plunge as swiftly as it can rise...
...convulsion was part carnival, part anarchist spree, increasingly spurred on by Communists-but, more than anything, it was a spontaneous spark of national temper. Rebellious students, struggling only two weeks ago to prepare for the exams that would determine their place in French society, bent their energies to completely paralyzing France's universities and tying up many lower schools as well. Inspired by the students' example and glad of the chance to vent their own grievances, striking workers seized scores of factories in the worst epidemic of wildcat work stoppages since the days of Leon Blum...