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...Quieter Bazaar. Last week a substantial part of the computerized future arrived-not for the proud exchanges but for the humbler over-the-counter market. Until now, that market has been a telephonic bazaar for shares of firms too small to qualify for listing or unwilling to meet the exchanges' disclosure requirements. Brokers have had to find out the going price of any given over-the-counter stock by making individual calls to other brokers specializing in those shares. In a technological leap, 750 leading brokers switched last week to an automated quotation system. They punched their...
After a $50-per-week job as editorial assistant to Editor Diana Vreeland at Harper's Bazaar, Ali signed on as a photographer's helper and began to carom around New York. "I never had a hi-fi or even a sofa in those days," she recalls. "I just threw a mattress on the floor most places...
...Florida coast, Grand Bahama until 15 years ago was little more than 550 square miles of scrub, coral and limestone. Since then, $1 billion in foreign investment, mainly from the U.S., has built a dozen resort hotels, retirement homes, an oil refinery, several industrial plants and an International Bazaar where tourists shop in Chinese pagodas and London-like mews. For those looking for faster action, there are casinos, including two of the largest in the Western Hemisphere. Almost everything has been imported-even the palm trees...
...demonstration of savagery by the men who hold power, or covet it, in Syria. Prime Ministers have been shot and opponents of the regime have been killed in mass executions; two Jews, labeled Israeli spies, have been hanged-and their bodies left on display for the delectation of the bazaar crowds...
...extraordinary strength. Once a strictly trade journal unknown outside the industry, it has been converted under Fairchild's guidance into a lively, gossipy and bitchy newspaper of manners, trends and scandal. Though its circulation of 85,000 is far below that of Vogue (450,000) and Harper's Bazaar (440,000), it is clearly the most powerful and influential fashion journal in the U.S. It has become must reading for anyone connected with the fashion business, for journalists in search of story tips, and for members of the social set who want to know what's Up and what...