Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because the fortunes of the free world's industrial nations are so intertwined, troubles tend to spread-like a run in a woman's stocking. Part of Wall Street's recent skittishness has been laid to concern about some weak spots that have appeared in the world economy. Many stock markets abroad have suffered bad falls of late: last week stock prices in Tokyo sank to a five-year low (then rallied 3%), and the French Government, in an unprecedented move, admitted that it had intervened to support the price of some shares on the Bourse. There...
...AUSTRALIA. Boomy prosperity is being marred-but not seriously threatened -by a drought, rising imports and a shortage of capital that has helped to depress its stock market...
...through currency dealings in an unnamed country-probably owing to devaluation or runaway inflation. Helping to compensate for such hazards is the fact that commercial banks can do something abroad that they are forbidden to do at home: invest in nonbanking enterprises. The Philadelphia National Bank has stock in or options to buy into industrial firms in a dozen countries, and the Chase Bank's investments reach into developing industries in 17 countries...
Divorced. By Dorothy Collins, 38, high-collared Hit Parader of the mid-1950s, now doing summer stock: Raymond Scott, 54, the program's bandleader; on uncontested grounds of cruelty ("His criticism gave me asthma"); after 13 years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Gestapo man who has spied his American watch. Inevitably, the tedeschi leave a voluptuous collaborator (Raffaella Carra) reclining in the caboose. Sinatra spurns her advances, and when she tries to escape, he regretfully mows her down, simultaneously thumbing his nose at his own public image and giving this rolling-stock melodrama at least one swift, strong, indisputable moment of truth...