Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrow into his chest, and stepping on a half-buried nail can pierce the detonating cap of the shotgun shell beneath his foot. The door of a village hut may be rigged to a battery of exploding spikes, the clothes hanging on a peasant's wall may be wired to a grenade, and the Buddha on the family altar is liable to explode. Such tempting war souvenirs as Viet Cong flags are almost sure to give their collectors an unexpected bang...
...override their veto. After a round of talks with his generals, he decreed Congress closed and ordered troops into Brasilia. By the hundreds, they swarmed into the capital's radio stations and newspaper plants, cut off telephone and cable circuits to the rest of the country, raised a wall of bayonets around the airport and the sleekly modern saucers of steel and glass that house Congress. The Deputies saw the futility of fighting on, and quietly cleared out of the building as ordered...
...other 4.12 points. And on Wednesday -Columbus Day - the market soared. On a high-for-a-holiday volume of 6,910,000 shares, the average climbed 19.54 points. It was the biggest one-day increase since Nov. 26, 1963, when the industrials leaped 32 points in a Wall Street show of confidence in the four-day-old Administration of Lyndon Johnson. The day's performance was enough to overcome minor declines in the next two days. The market closed at 771.71, providing a 27.39-point increase in the industrials for the week as a whole, one of the best...
...resurgence? The most obvious reason was that many stocks had been oversold and there were bargains to be had. Another reason, as the week went on, were encouraging words from Washington about one of Wall Street's nagging worries. The Street has feared for some time that Viet Nam might bring on wage and price controls, as the Korean War did, which would dampen profits and decrease stock values. But last week Commerce Secretary John T. Connor told a Washington conference that there was "no indication now" of controls being necessary. Administration Economics Adviser Arthur M. Okun...
Although the upturn left bears licking their wounds, few Wall Streeters were willing to bet that the bulls were firmly on top once more. In spite of some rosy earnings reports-IBM last week reported a record third-quarter profit of $131 million-many investors are still worried about the possibility of an economic downturn next year...