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Favored Hedge. Individual investors suspect that they have been neglected by brokers who are anxious to woo the big-block trades of the institutions. Individuals pay higher commissions than the institutions do, and many feel that they get inferior research service from brokers. Some also fear that the institutions profit from inside information not available to the small investor. The Equity Funding scandal this spring did nothing to allay that suspicion; some institutions got rid of their stock before news broke that an insurance subsidiary of Equity Funding had been falsifying its books...
...because Cyrano wears his soul with panache, a plume of the lyric spirit. He has the brio of a Don Juan, yet he dares not woo the beautiful and shallow Roxane for fear that his monstrous nose will render him ridiculously ugly in her eyes. And so he puts his words of eloquence, passion and longing at the service of the handsome and inarticulate dolt Christian, whom Roxane fancies. Cyrano also possesses some of the romantic chivalry of Don Quixote. He tilts at the crass, compromising windbags of this world. He has an in nate gallantry that makes his last...
...power in 1970, the club found itself with 35 M.P.s-double its previous parliamentary representation-plus 33 peers in the House of Lords. Nonetheless the Monday Club has become Wednesday's child, full of woe. The size of the Conservative victory meant that moderate Tories no longer needed to woo clubbers for support. More recently the Monday Club has been torn by internal rebellion; there is some evidence that members of Britain's small, neo-fascist National Front are moving to take over some of the club's branches...
...Billy with a ticket and berth, more problems are created than solved. The ticket belonged to Public Enemy Number 1, who never showed for the voyage; now everyone is chasing after Billy, who becomes sailor, chef and old woman to escape arrest. In between costume changes, he tries to woo Hope from her fiance, Sir Evelyn (Evelyn?!) Oakleigh. Amid the antics which follow, Billy is feted as the boat's resident celebrity, and jailed as an impostor, Reno discovers (although I can't say where) the charms of Sir Evelyn, and true love triumphs. At Leverett House, the slightly lagging...
...securities industry itself is stepping up efforts to woo the small investor back. The Amex, for example, is completing plans for its first nationwide ad campaign to sell individuals on the merits of buying stock. A turnaround in prices-which is not an unreasonable expectation if the economy continues to boom-would surely help such efforts. But because brokers have done such a thorough job of convincing the small investor that he is not wanted, they face a long campaign before they change his mind...