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...floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange last week, Canadian traders scrambled for penny stocks like women grabbing for giveaway nylons, went on the biggest buying spree in the exchange's 100-year history. As exhausted clerks tried in vain to keep up with orders, the high-speed ticker lagged five minutes behind. When the siren blared the close of one day's business, a record 12,264,000 shares had changed hands...
...their share of moving-in headaches. Ike Eisenhower found the bookcases empty in his White House office, and the pale green walls all but stripped of their pictures.* When Ike started to open his mail, he had to buzz for a letter opener. A little later he tugged in vain at the drawer of the broad mahogany presidential desk (which once belonged to Teddy Roosevelt). "Mr. Simmons." said Ike to Receptionist Bill Simmons, "is there a key to this desk? I can't get into this drawer." Simmons produced a key, Ike opened the drawer and pawed tentatively through...
...decided to swear on two Bibles: the historic one used by George Washington, and the one Cadet Eisenhower used at West Point. His own was opened at II Chronicles 7:14. The Washington Bible was opened at Psalms 127:1: "Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain...
...castle where the Sleeping Beauty lies. Each man shall have a chance to wake and win her with a kiss, and each may choose his own ideal time and place for the trial. Having kidded the colonels, Ustinov now kids their national drama. The Sleeping Beauty is wooed in vain in a French period comedy, an Elizabethan verse-play, a languid bit of Chekhov, a Hollywood melodrama...
With the start of the overtime period, the Crimson milled dangerously around the B.U. cage, but couldn't get a shot off. The Terriers then had their vain chance. At 2:18, Greeley dug the puck out of a crowd at the blue line, passing to Hubbard alone on the left. No one was close to the little forward as he skated in and scored easily