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...Monday morning, the average briefly pushed past 2700 only three days later, on Thursday afternoon, and again on Friday before pulling back a bit to close at 2685.43. Nonetheless, at that level it posted a record gain of 93.43 for the week. The irrepressible market took in stride news that the trade deficit rose 12%, to a towering $15.71 billion in July, and it was buoyed by a report that wholesale prices increased at an annual rate of only 2% last month. Stock-trading volume was enormous; Tuesday's New York Stock Exchange turnover of 278 million shares...
Born in South Africa, the son of a prosperous British rancher, Holmes a Court (the family name dates from the Norman Conquest in 1066) studied law in Perth, in western Australia, and decided to settle there. But the young attorney hit his stride once he got into investing. Often underestimated by his opponents, the lanky Holmes a Court has since 1970 won control of transportation, entertainment, publishing, mining and petroleum concerns around the world. Today, with a net worth of some $250 million, he is reputedly Australia's wealthiest citizen. A reclusive investor, Holmes a Court prefers being at home...
Take Montand's Cesar, for example. His stride, his gesture, his voice bespeak implacable authority. Even his mustache reinforces the message. It is not the adornment of routine villainy, crimped and primped, but an ample, well-rooted assertion of masculine self-sufficiency, of immunity to the judgments of common men. He possesses himself as confidently as he grasps his wealth and standing in the community. His antagonist Jean has toiled since birth under the curse of a hunchback. He knows all about burdens, yet his endurance under new ones is almost unbearable to witness. When at last he cracks...
...question was about as welcome as an attack of gout. "Mr. Madison," the TV interviewer purred, "how do you react to Patrick Henry's press conference this morning charging that the convention has exceeded its instructions and, quote, 'is hell-bent on tyranny.' " Remain calm, smile, take it in stride. "All citizens of our great state, of course, respect the views of Mr. Henry," Madison said slowly. "But sometimes Pat gets a little too fond of his own rhetoric. To paraphrase my esteemed fellow Virginian: Give me Constitution or give me chaos...
...wave of anxiety was provoked by terrorist incidents in Rome two weeks ago, when rockets were fired at the British and U.S. embassies and a car bomb went off outside the American compound. But since little damage was done and no one was injured, vacationers took the news in stride. It will apparently take more serious trouble than that to spoil the festive return of Americans to Europe...