Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Evidence. In the warehouse, at a sixth-floor window overlooking Elm Street, police found the killer's roost. Remains of a fried-chicken dinner, an empty Coke bottle, and three empty shell cases lay near by. The assassin had stacked book boxes against one wall so that he could not be seen through the window. He had sat on another box. Beneath the outside window, he had placed three boxes that served as a rifle rest. From that he had been able to track the slow-moving presidential car until it got past him, then got off three shots...
...Never have I seen people who feel so alone, lost and abandoned. They have given up hope." So reported a West German traveler after a visit to relatives in the East German city of Dresden, summing up the growing misery on the far side of the Wall...
Historic Rally. Wall Street took a look at all this and found the prospect reassuring. After panicking in the chaotic minutes after the shooting of President Kennedy, investors had the weekend to reflect on the basic strengths of the economy and to witness Johnson's sure-handed assumption of power. When trading opened on the day after the funeral, the New York Stock Exchange recorded the greatest rally in its history as paper values soared by $15 billion. The Dow-Jones industrial average jumped 32.03 points for the day, more than making up for the previous Friday...
...prosperous"), Johnson is not known for strong expressions of economic philosophy. Much of his economic counsel in the past has come from fairly conservative businessmen and advisers. Among them: Robert Anderson, a Texan who was Dwight Eisenhower's Treasury Secretary and is now a limited partner of Wall Street's Loeb, Rhoades; George Brown, president of Houston's Brown & Root, one of the world's largest building contractors; and Manhattan's Edwin Weisl, a wealthy corporate lawyer and Johnson's campaign co-manager in his 1960 bid for the presidency. Such men will doubtless...
...Wall Street philosophy of caveat emptor, that every man's losses are his own misfortune, received an important qualification last week. The New York Stock Exchange decided to make good to 20,000 hapless investors the mistake of one of the members of its club. After four feverish days of consultation, Exchange officials and a group of top brokers agreed to set up a $12 million fund to pay back almost immediately the losses suffered by the customers of Ira Haupt & Co., which was suspended from trading after its biggest commodity customer went bankrupt, leaving the firm with debts...