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...next week on a twelve-day state visit to the U.S. Ingredients : an airport greeting from President Dwight Eisenhower,*quarters at Blair House, a White House dinner party, an address to a joint session of Congress, a white tie dinner at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, and a Broadway ticker-tape parade, a visit to Monticello and to the New Salem, Ill. log cabin village where Lincoln lived as a young...
...Wall Street, the message of the steelmen and statisticians came loud and clear. In heavy trading that time and again left the high-speed ticker behind, National Steel gained 5¼ points (to a new high of 84), U.S. Steel picked up 4⅝ (to 944), Bethlehem, Armco and Youngstown all ran higher. And with them went the market. By week's end, shares on the Dow-Jones industrial average had gained 14.24 points to reach a new peak: 602.21, and a level nearly 40% higher than the recession low of 16 months...
...National Airport by President and Mrs. Eisenhower. In three days in Washington, Frondizi will dine with the Eisenhowers and Secretary of State Dulles. A longtime Congressman himself, he will address a joint session of Congress. Also on the ten-day itinerary: a weekend in colonial Williamsburg; a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan, talks with New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, flying trips to Detroit and Chicago...
Some reflected the temper of the times ?a shock-haired Texan receiving a Broadway ticker-tape welcome for winning a piano competition in Moscow, a limber Australian methodically breaking records for the mile. Still other scenes were charmingly sentimental ? the heir to an ancient throne promising himself in marriage to a commoner he first met on a tennis court, the new, young head of a populous religious sect resuming his daily classes at Harvard...
...since President Eisenhower's heart attack in September 1955 had the stock market taken such a blow. After setting new highs each, week for three weeks in a row, the market started down at the week's opening. While the ticker ran late for more than two hours of the 5½ hours of trading, 1,040 of the 1,287 issues traded suffered losses ranging from 5 to 42 points. It was the second largest number of issues traded in one day in stock exchange history (largest: 1,290 issues...