Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your Wall Street cover story [Aug. 19] was comprehensive, informative, readable 1966 journalism at its best...
Summer was almost over, and there was a chill on Wall Street. At the New York Stock Exchange, Dow-Jones industrials started last week at 804.62, and fell 12.59 points for a tenth consecutive Monday loss. Tuesday, the industrials slipped another 1.89 points on the largest single-day volume (9,830,000 shares) in three months. On Wednesday came a 9.41-point rally-only to be followed by two days of loss that wiped out the gain. Ending the week at 780.56, the industrials thus showed a five-day loss of 24.06 points (and a two-week drop...
Unlike many nudist colonies, which wall themselves in like monasteries, forbid liquor and anything that smacks of bodily contact, San Gregorio is considered a "free beach," i.e. where bathers are free to wear or doff what they please. One flamboyant japer paraded around on his first day wearing bright red knee-length socks and nothing else. "Here there are no boundaries, no police, no rules," said University of California Coed Nancy Harris. "Nobody bugs...
...abstract mural in Boston's new John F. Kennedy Federal Building is a full 180 sq. ft., cost $25,000, and was simply titled by its painter, Robert Motherwell, New England Elegy. But it did not remain that for long. Up on the wall last week it became everyone's Rorschach. Office workers began to see in the top black band the outlines of a gun stock. Then reports got around that the title was actually The Tragedy of President Kennedy's Death...
...little man who compensates his fear with dreary little vices. As he gets the financial picture, his watery eyes gleam with greed, and he assumes a proprietary air. When Pina leaves the room, he arrogantly rearranges some furniture, carelessly cracks a glass lampshade, slyly turns the crack to the wall...