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...exchange's action came as a be lated response to longtime criticism of established indexes, notably the famed Dow-Jones, produced by the publishers of the Wall Street Journal. Things got to the point where no less a tape watcher than Lyndon Johnson - disturbed because the Dow apparently made the market decline in the spring of 1965 seem worse than it was - urged that the stock exchange come up with a new way to measure the market...
Woes & Wiles. Williston Bibb Barrett is an oversubtle Southerner who has lost the gift for action and adopted instead the stance of watcher, listener and wanderer. During his junior year at Princeton, he is overwhelmed by the mindless undergraduate decorum of the place and flees to New York, a room at the Y, and five years of psychoanalysis. Nights, he works three levels below ground as a humidification engineer for Macy's. Days, he plays up in Central Park at putting reality into perspective. He sets up a telescope and peeps at the passing show from behind a screen...
...students who were absent make up by watching tapes. A new rental market is opening up for TV-taped plays, operas and movies. And for homemade shows, there's nothing like it to keep little Polly's ninth birthday a joy forever. In fact, for the self-watcher the joys are limitless; when he has run through his whole library of tapes, he can always take himself watching himself making video tape...
...necklines that plunge full and wide. Rudi Gernreich, whose topless suit provided the industry with welcome publicity but negligible sales, has engineered the "bib" suit, which comes loosely up over the middle of the bosom, but leaves the outer reaches marginally exposed, offering a new perspective to the girl watcher who prefers to sneak a sidelong glance rather than risk a head-on stare...
Maugham was by nature, and by his own admission, cold and withdrawn. "There are very few people who know anything about me. And even they do not know as much as they imagine." He was a watcher, not a participant...