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...stock exchange, in the temple of commercial civilization, she meets a handsome young broker (Alain Delon) with a mind like a ledger and a ticker for a heart, a man to whom all values are convertible in gold. He changes women the way he changes ties, and one day she happens to match his socks. "When I'm with you," she muses after the fact, "I feel as if I'm in a foreign country. But perhaps there's no need to know each other in order to love. Perhaps there's no need to love...
...reason for this, suggests Investors Diversified Services Vice President Donald E. Meads, is that the principal customers of the funds are "grass roots people. They don't have ticker tapes running through their living rooms, so they are less likely to get swept up in panic." And George Whitney, a trustee of Massachusetts Investors Trust, believes that in the long run Blue Monday may have the same effect on the funds as the 1937 downturn -which produced a 13% sales gain for M.I.T. If nothing else, however, the post-crash performance of the mutuals should serve as a reminder...
Returning home after a visit to New York where he was welcomed in a blizzard of ticker tape ("What a wonderful, remarkable thing"), Chiari could report good news on a project that would mean much more to Panama than any haggling over current fees and tolls. When the present canal reaches its capacity sometime between 1980 and the year 2000, the U.S. intends to build another one, and it will probably be in Panama. Of all possible new routes (see map), the two most favored are in eastern Panama above the Colombian border. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, which...
...Tuesday noon, the ticker tape plainly reflected the rally that the institutions began. Big blocks of buy orders-3,200 shares of Jersey Standard, 5,000 General Motors-raced across the four screens in the corners of the Stock Exchange's main trading arena, and floor traders sent the good word back to their home offices, which in turn wired out more buy flashes. But buying was highly selective: rather than plunging in "at the market price," as small investors usually do, the big funds had stated the prices that they were prepared to pay-and bought only...
...Memorial Day breather gave Wall Street's harassed brokers and clerks a chance to catch up, and the nation time to absorb the news that the market was hardening. By Friday noon, as the buying fever subsided, the ticker tape caught up with orders for the first time since Monday. At the week's close, the Dow-Jones stood at 611.05-almost exactly even with the previous week's close of 611.88, before the Blue Monday began...