Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...America Clint Frank. He got a master's degree (1940) and a liberal bent from Harvard Business School ("I didn't raise my boy to be a Democrat," says father Proxmire. "Harvard's where it happened"), put in six months as a trainee for Wall Street's J.P. Morgan & Co., five years in the U.S. Army (Stateside) in World War II, decided to leave business for politics because "the area of responsibility and opportunities were no longer in business but in public office...
...world a more hard-working and dutiful group of students than those at the Salahiah Girls Institute in northern Malaya. All day for six days a week, the girls, aged twelve to 20, drill in Arabic, study the Moslem faith, recite from the Koran. Beyond the high wall that surrounds the school are lush green fields, but the girls never play on them, for recreation has no place in the ascetic life of the religious institute. In this austere atmosphere, one day last month, a terrifying thing happened. "Who knows what it is all about?" sighed Salahiah's President...
...scatter at my very presence," said he. "I can make oranges fly in the air." But the school decided on a new tack, at long last called in a physician. Last week the school was carrying out the doctor's recommendations by tearing down part of the big wall and giving the girls a little more freedom and fun. But just in case medical science failed, it also took the precaution of proclaiming 30 straight days of prayer to ask protection against those frightful whatever-they-were who may or may not have lived in that rubber tree...
...experts' uncertainty about which way the U.S. economy is going was nowhere more sharply reflected than on Wall Street's stock market. Like a ballplayer trying to work out his muscle kinks with knee bends, the Big Board bounced up and down last week; market leaders in steel, oil and aircraft tumbled as much as 2½ points in a day. On Monday, the Dow-Jones industrial average skidded 9.25 points to 478.95, for the market's sharpest break in nearly two years. Though intermittent rallies flickered across the floor at midweek, they could not make...
While the market's erratic performance turned many Wall Streeters bearish, few experts cried doom. Instead, they saw the downtrend as an orderly retreat from early summer's unwarranted high level, which brought the market within a point of the alltime 521.05 peak set last year. The selling waves were generally light-average daily volume was less than 2,000,000 shares-a sign that investors are not discouraged and intend to wait out the slump. Most big institutional investors appeared to be switching to other stocks instead of leaving the market altogether; there was no sudden rise...