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...package: Genius Edison's old five-building laboratory in West Orange, N.J., his gabled Victorian house near by, his library of some 10,000 books, most of the earliest working models of his inventive "firsts." Among the heirlooms: the first universal stock-market ticker, the first successful phonograph, the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb, the first generator to produce electricity efficiently...
Batlle Berres' itinerary calls for a state dinner with Vice President and Mrs. Nixon in Washington, a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan, and a visit with President Eisenhower at Gettysburg. After quick looks at wintry Boston and Chicago, his party will drop in on sunnier Miami. When he returns to Uruguay, Batlle Berres will have less than three months more to serve as President. Then, under the country's Swiss-style, national-council form of government, the No. 2 man in last year's election, Alberto Zubiria, will take over the chairmanship (i.e., the presidency...
Then the Guatemalan party flew to Manhattan, where, based at the Waldorf-Astoria, the visiting President attended a special birthday Mass (he turned 41 last week) at St. Patrick's Cathedral, breakfasted with Francis Cardinal Spellman, got showered with ticker tape on lower Broadway, received honorary degrees from Columbia and Fordham, hustled through a round of conferences with such U.S. notables as Ralph Bunche, James A. Farley and United Fruit President Kenneth Redmond. At week's end the visitors were off on a U.S. tour that would include a friendly talk with Ike in Denver and the Vanderbilt...
Free Beer. The borough of Brooklyn (pop. 2,848,000) erupted with joy over their beloved Dodgers' first triumph. A blizzard of paper and ticker tape fluttered from office buildings. Barkeepers served beer on the house, and lunchroom operators handed out free hot dogs. Snake-dancing and parades went on all night. Life was so complete for one Brooklyn rooter that he tried to end it with a suicide leap off Brooklyn Bridge...
...noon, when 3,400,000 shares had been traded, nearly four times the normal amount, a few short rallies started flickering across the board only to die out as new selling waves rolled in. Yet the market handled the huge volume well; the ticker was rarely more than two minutes late. By early afternoon there were still some stocks that the specialists, trying vainly to find buyers for or finance themselves, could not handle. American Tobacco, Du Pont, Procter & Gamble, General Foods were still not open. Not until 3 o'clock, 30 minutes before the close, did Du Pont...