Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is one small corner of war-torn South Viet Nam that has managed to maintain a separate peace. Cholon, the teeming Chinese quarter of Saigon, survives behind a Great Wall of indifference to the war-an indifference tempered only by the dictates of business. For it is from the bulging godowns of Cholon that Viet Nam's 1,200,000 "overseas" Chinese dominate almost 90% of the nation's economy. Lately, to Chinese chagrin, that precarious dominance has been threatened. After all, the Chinese of Cholon have been a target for Communist persuasion for the past...
...program offers not only TIME at special school-subscription rates, as a "textbook" on contemporary affairs, but also free monthly classroom materials in the form of guides, vocabulary tests, wall maps, charts, graphs and the annual Current Affairs Test. Projected for 1966-67 are introductions to the Supreme Court, religions of the world, Red China, international alliances, Canada, and space. There will also be two news brush-up quizzes. We hope that these teaching aids, like TIME itself, help the student develop a sharper perception of his world...
...Announcement. The news from Washington and Detroit gave Wall Street's nervous investors an excuse to sell more furiously. The Dow-Jones industrial average worried off ten points after Ackley's critique of profits, continued down after Martin's endorsement of higher taxes, plunged another 26 points in 1½ trading sessions after G.M.'s disclosure of a production cutback, falling to an intraday...
...Wall Street's Outlook. The stock market's bulls have been frustrated for more than a year because every substantial rise has been nipped by scare talk fanning fears of a business downturn in the months ahead. A year ago, the market was sent tumbling from 940 to 841, after the Fed's Bill Martin compared the modern economy with that of the giddy 1920s. Last February, the market climbed to a record 995 and seemed headed toward 1,000, but talk of tight money and tougher taxes again sent it down...
...insider," by Wall Street terminology - and by the legally enforced standards of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission-is anyone who, by reason of being an officer, director or major stockholder of a corporation, can get advance information that might affect the firm's stocks. Thus insiders are required to file regular reports of their stock purchases with the SEC; the commission closely scrutinizes such reports to make sure that the insiders have not profited by information unavailable to outsiders, meaning the general public...