Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the United Nations offices of ambassador Adlai Stevenson to the investment houses along Wall Street, from Rockefeller Center and Fifth Avenue to Grand Central Station, City Hall, and the Harvard Club of New York, teams of Crimeds handed out copies of the University daily, crying jubilantly, "New York, we are here...
...Wall Street professionals expect the market as a whole to keep going up as sharply as it has in recent weeks. Some predict a fall-off in prices, because stocks in the Dow-Jones industrial index are now up to an average of 18 times earnings. Others argue that the effect of any tax cut has already been taken into account by investors, and point ominously to last week's Commerce Department report that capital spending, now running at a record annual rate of $38.4 billion, is likely to decline slightly in next year's first quarter...
...eyepiece, however, to see that Cartier's might be in for a change of character. Biggest member of the share-buying syndicate apparently was Ramco Enterprises, Inc. Ramco, which also owns a shopping center and a textile mill, is headed by Ira Guilden, 66, a smooth-running Wall Street operator who was once vice president of Bulova Watch. Another member of the syndicate-along with two unnamed charity trusts-was Edward G. Goldstein, a well-heeled Bostonian. Goldstein is the financial power behind Marcus & Co., which operates the jewelry departments in 20 Gimbel Bros, department stores, and also owns...
...Outer Seven," whose future relations with the Common Market depend upon the outcome of Britain's painful negotiations with the Six. And a dozen other countries, most of which have no prospect of ever joining the Common Market, regard the market's developing single-tariff wall as a piece of economic aggression. "We see only this," wailed a Yugoslav government economist last week. "Our exports are being choked...
...when Mao Tse-tung had a price of $100,000 on his head and was hiding in a cave village with his dwindling Red army, a young correspondent named Edgar Snow tramped across north China to the Great Wall, found Mao and spent weeks talking social progress with him. He then hurried home to write Red Star Over China, an ardently naive treatise that predicted the ultimate victory of Mao and his Chinese Communists, who were not really Communists but agrarian reformers...