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...walked out onto the Exchange floor the morning after Black Thursday and placed the most famous order in Exchange history, "205 for Steel," a half-hearted attempt by the big banks to put a floor under the Market. It was Whitney who, in the years after the Crash, bore the chief brunt of the Congressional investigations into stock market practices. As he grew more and more ultraconservative and self-confident about the financial world of Wall Street's Old Guard (at one point he told a Congressional committee the Stock Exchange was "a perfect institution"), Whitney's personal affairs deteriorated...
...most readers who truly would like to know about the situation are getting their minds boggled by the avalanche of different facts. I won't bore you with any more. But I would like to tell you a little about what I know and feel about the farmworkers' situation in the Salinas Valley. I've lived in Salinas most of my life, the Salinas Valley all of my life and I've worked "out in the fields" the past five summers. The past two summers I've worked on a Hansen Farms lettuce crew (Teamster) and during this period...
...surface. There they file into a tiny rail car for the ride to the mine face, the wall of solid coal at the end of the tunnel where the coal is actually extracted. During the four-mile journey, the beams from the lamps on the miners' hats bore through the darkness, picking up eerie, abandoned passageways, diggings of another day. The foreman carries a small naphtha lamp; if the lamp's flame flares up, it indicates the presence of flammable methane gas and the threat of fire; if it goes out, it means that the oxygen has been...
...think I am dying." Actually Lady Lucan, 35, was not grievously wounded. When police searched her five-story town house, however, they found the body of the family's 29-year-old nanny stuffed into a canvas bag in the dining room; her head and body bore the marks of a fatal beating...
Some noted that the nanny bore a close resemblance to Lady Lucan, and there was speculation that the murderer, in the dark or in his anger, may have mistaken her for Lady Lucan, who then surprised him by suddenly appearing on the scene. Perhaps the only person who can clear matters up is Lord Lucan. At week's end he was still being sought, and there were rumors that he was either outside the country or had done "the honorable thing," as one of his friends phrased it, and had shot himself...