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However bullish such performances among blue chips may look, high-flyers such as Avco, Syntex and Control Data have actually led the spring spurt. Last week Polaroid (up $10.63), Motorola (up $14.13) and Teledyne (up $15.75) carried on the surge, and IBM shot up a whopping $28.50, thanks to a $17 jump Thursday, to close at a record $496.50 per share. But the industrials are catching up, partly because cash-heavy institutional investors (notably mutual funds) are upping their purchases. "The more the glamour stocks go up," explains Richard Buchsbaum, research director at W. E. Hutton & Co., "the cheaper...
...show itself, aired on ABC-TV, won the ratings sweepstakes over NBC's Bonanza and CBS's The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. More important, as Cohen happily pointed out, "virtually every play in town reported a healthy spurt at the box office." Daily ticket sales for The Homecoming, produced by Cohen, which averaged $3,500 since the play opened three months ago, reached $10,000 the day after the Tony awards...
...cast's biggest problem was dealing with London's foreign language. Sometimes an actor concentrated so hard on dropping an 'h' or putting in an 'aye' that his whole line came out meaning only, "I wish I were English!" And voices invariably slipped into Cambridgeese after an arduous cockney spurt. Why didn't Hurley pick something original and indigenous? Then his cast could have projected emotions instead of taking an Eliza Doolittle lesson in reverse...
...Dignam's funeral, Bloom's brangle with the one-eyed Fenian in Kiernan's pub, Bloom's meeting with Stephen at Buck Mulligan's brawl, the nocturnal visit of Bloom and Stephen to Bella Cohen's brothel, Molly Bloom's magnificent end-spurt of soliloquacity...
...experts are somewhat mystified by the new spurt of Russian missile activity, particularly since there has been no sign that the Soviets have embarked on a comprehensive shelter program to go with it. As some in the Pentagon see it, the Russians may be trying to put economic pressure on the U.S., figuring that their expenditures would be well worth it if they lead the U.S. to budget $30 billion or so on top of the rising expenses of the Viet Nam war. While the Russians obviously consider the U.S. their chief threat now, it may turn out that they...