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...Thirteen. Stop-loss orders have increased 25% in the past five weeks, Specialist John Coleman estimates, and have nearly doubled in some of the glamour stocks. The result: whenever the price dips, the stop-loss orders set off in a chain, and the stock plummets. Standard Kollsman stock was caught this way recently: the exchange canceled all Kollsman stop-loss orders on the books, has yet to restore them...
...Thirteen years ago Msgr. De Blanc performed the marriage ceremony for my wife and myself. We were at that time of different faiths; he solidly prophesied that we'd never make it. It's true we aren't dead yet and won't know until we are but so far we've done fine and have two children, spaced right, and they will be our family since we believe in birth control. Msgr. De Blanc ties a good knot. As a prophet and a psychiatrist, he falls flat on his face...
...success; "but as I went downwards and began to edit as I felt at twenty, then at eighteen, I was more successful; but when I got to my tastes at fourteen years of age, I found instantaneous response. Kissing and fighting were the only things I cared for at thirteen or fourteen, and these are the things the English public desires...
Chayes joins thirteen other experts in law, economics, political science, and sociology who comment on the present and future role of the large corporation...
...Strait. At a Cabinet meeting in April 1944 he told Tojo: "Saipan is Japan's lifeline. If Saipan falls, surrender. It is the silliest thing on earth to keep fighting after that." Tojo shouted angrily: "Don't poke your nose into the affairs of the supreme command!" Thirteen days after the bloody U.S. conquest of Saipan, Tojo's Cabinet fell...