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Once again the bankers met, but this time they gave up all hope of rallying the whole market; they agreed only to help fill "air holes," stocks that could find no buyers at all. This time no Dick Whitney went marching out to snap up U.S. Steel. Instead, Whitney and the rest of the exchange's governing committee met secretly in a room directly under the exchange floor to decide whether the markets should be temporarily shut down...
...governors came to the meeting in groups of two and three as unobtrusively as possible," Whitney recalled. "The office they met in was never designed for large meetings of this sort, with the result that most of the governors were compelled to stand or to sit on tables. As the meeting progressed, panic was raging overhead on the floor . . . The feelings of those present were revealed by their habit of continually lighting cigarettes, taking a puff or two, putting them out and lighting new ones -- a practice which soon made the narrow room blue with smoke." After due deliberation, they...
Although Independent Counsel Whitney North Seymour Jr. asked that expert testimony on the alcoholism issue be disallowed, Presiding Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has agreed to hear medical witnesses on Deaver's problems. In other cases, judges have allowed testimony on whether alcohol impaired a defendant's intent to commit a crime. To prove perjury, Seymour must show that Deaver intended to lie under oath...
Despite high hopes following its big win over Columbia on Saturday, the Harvard women's volleyball team fell to Yale 3-0 at Payne Whitney Gymnasium in New Haven last night...
...Register staffer involved in preparing his paper's story has told colleagues the video was supplied by the Dukakis campaign. A reliable source says someone connected with the Dukakis campaign also gave the video to the Times. Craig Whitney, the Times's Washington bureau chief, insists that "nobody spoon-fed us the story," which he says resulted from "brilliant reporting" following up "several tips." Told about the alleged Dukakis campaign involvement, however, he says, "I just don't know if your information is correct...