Word: wall
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Instinctive Distaste. With all those guns trained on him, Lyndon Johnson is not likely to go for a tax increase unless he feels that he absolutely has to. Wall Street, at any rate, seems convinced that there will be no rise; during the week, the Dow-Jones industrial average climbed 23.55 points, the largest one-week rise since October. Ultimately, in assessing the entire economic situation, Johnson will probably turn his decision mainly on the tight-money problem. A shortage of mortgage money has sent the housing industry into a tailspin (see U.S. BUSINESS), shaking up businessmen in a dozen...
Five months ago, President Josip Broz Tito discovered conspiracy most foul lurking behind every wall. Tito's office and home had been bugged to the rafters, and the fact was only slightly less startling than the identity of the chief bugger: none other than Tito's Vice President, heir apparent and old comrade-in-arms, Aleksandar Rankovic...
...special receiver as far as 400 ft. away. Continental also offers a 4-in. dart transmitter that can be fired from a carbon-dioxide-powered dart gun into an area otherwise inaccessible to the bugger. Built to withstand the shock of impact, it will embed itself in a wall or tree, pick up nearby sound and radio it back over a range...
Although such a move has been rumored for weeks, confirmation of a sizable McDonnell holding of Douglas common stock surprised both Wall Street and Washington. Until early this year, the McDonnell Co. controlled 58,726 shares in Douglas. This block of stock plus Chairman James S. McDonnell's private holdings were all that remained of McDonnell's abortive 1963 effort toward a merger of the two companies. At the time, Douglas turned "Mr. Mac" down cold...
...share is expected to reach $2,000,000. Two weeks ago, in order to obtain funds, the archdiocese sold its interest to a group of 15 pension funds, universities, hospitals and individuals. It had to pay $1,000,000, covering legal fees and a commission, to the Wall Street firm of Laird & Co., which arranged the transaction. But the sales price, along with the yearly royalty payments, , meant a cool $25.5 million collected from Listerine...