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...Issues. Small investors generally have greeted the market rise with a yawn, and left trading to the big institutions (mutual funds, pension funds, trusts). In mid-May, small investors (those who trade in lots of 100 shares or fewer) sold 250 shares for every 100 they bought. The speculators, who in the 1960s bought "hot issues" selling at high P/E ratios, now are trading instead in options, or the right to buy or sell stock at a specified price in the future...
...MOTHER AND FATHER. The first great blow that hit me was my mother's death when I was twelve. I was the apple of her eye and, God knows, she was my entire world. As one gets older and the grave begins to yawn, one feels closer and closer to one's father. [Olivier's father was an Anglican parson of austere Victorian rectitude.] I remember Tony Guthrie, a year or so before he died, saying, "Do you find yourself thinking about your father more and more?" and I said...
...small suggestion for the Red Sox: Put Ken "The Yawn" Harrelson in left field. And throw bats...
Even more unintelligible was the background chorus of calculated coughs, groans and mumbles, punctuated by occasional cries of "Hear! hear!" "Rubbish!" and "Sit down!" As the Daily Telegraph observed: "Certainly those who had never before heard that curious compromise between a belch, a yawn and a groan, which [is officially transcribed] as a 'cheer,' must have been hard put to know what it signified." Coming through clearly, however, was a cry of "Send him to Europe!" when Labor M.P. Andrew Faulds hailed Wilson as a "wily old wizard" for his recent success in the EEC referendum...
Overseas, the Northrop revelations were greeted largely by an everybody-does-it yawn. Said one French official: "That American false puritanism makes Americans really think everything is pure in business. Clearly, oil, arms, electronics and telecommunications deals are usually fertilized a bit." The use of agents and consultants is not peculiar to Northrop. Khashoggi has represented Lockheed, Raytheon and Chrysler, and General Stehlin is still listed by Hughes Aircraft as a consultant...