Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forget their anger at the wording of America's editorial and think clearly about the substantive issues involved. Whatever their Reform brethren may want, argues Michael Wyschogrod, assistant professor of philosophy at Hunter College, Orthodox Jews should not be so eager to help secularists raise a rigid, unclimbable wall between church or synagogue and state...
...last Wall Street's bulls found something to feed on. The Dow-Jones average, which had been floundering all summer, jumped 35 points following the Cuban crisis, and climbed another 11.55 points last week to close at 616.13. Chart watchers were particularly cheered that the market cracked 616, which to them had seemed a crucial and formidable number because the Dow-Jones had not closed so high since just before Blue Monday...
Although the book's power lies in its incessant detailing of indecencies, it contains several incidents that stand out from the rest. One is a brief episode. On a bus station wall Griffin finds a list of prices that some white man will pay Negro girls if they indulge in various sexual acts. "This man offered his services free to any Negro girl over twenty, offered to pay, on an ascending scale, from two dollars for a nineteen-year-old girl up to seven-fifty for a fourteen-year old, and more for perversion dates...
...himself in the newsreels (he didn't), cultivated a voodoo priest ordained in spirit vibrations, and passed one weekend with Novelist John Dos Passes discussing the works of Daphne du Maurier because Gilbert had recently read her but never Dos Passes. Each day Gilbert studied the Wall Street Journal, which a thoughtful pal in New York sent down...
...holdings, finally got it on harsh terms dictated by Dresdner. To fatten its own portfolio, the bank wanted Krages' shares in a major chemical maker called Chemie-Verwaltungs, A.G., and in Germany's biggest coal company, Gelsen-kirchener Bergwerks, A.G. With his back to the wall, Krages was compelled to sell the shares, worth $125 million two years ago, for $29 million last month, well below prevailing bear market prices...