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Most dogged in the doom-crying, North or South, was Pundit David Lawrence, whose five-times-weekly column appears in 270 dailies, 62 of them in the South. By last week Lawrence (also editor of U.S. News & World Report) had written 18 consecutive columns on the evils of enforced integration; his words were played by many Southern editors on Page One. One of Lawrence's obscurer arguments-that Eisenhower's action was empowered by an 1871 law that had "never been used by any Chief Executive for the purpose set forth" by Eisenhower-was promptly rebutted...
...righteousness that Tito was never able to break; and the bearded anti-Communist chetnik, Draja Mihailovich, whose own children deserted him for Tito during the war and who was finally run down in the hills by the partisans. At his trial, and before his execution, Mihailovich movingly described his doom: "I wanted much; I began much; but the gale of the world carried away me and my work...
...store was "The X-Mas Outlet." It was a very nice store even if the idea of cut-rate Christmas has certain sentimental drawbacks. There were shiny cars and golden-haired dolls and smiling, happy salesmen. All this joy was, of course, to be fleeting. The foreshadowing of doom was a bold sign that stood in the front window, "EVERY DAY IS CHRISTMAS WITH US." The store is, of course, no more...
...most violent opposition to most of these suggestions came from Council Secretary Merom Brachman '58, who claimed that by voting the executive committee so much power, members were "sealing their own doom." He claimed the measures would "cut out free discussion," an opinion seconded by John Maher '60, who emotionally called them "the death of democracy...
While the market's erratic performance turned many Wall Streeters bearish, few experts cried doom. Instead, they saw the downtrend as an orderly retreat from early summer's unwarranted high level, which brought the market within a point of the alltime 521.05 peak set last year. The selling waves were generally light-average daily volume was less than 2,000,000 shares-a sign that investors are not discouraged and intend to wait out the slump. Most big institutional investors appeared to be switching to other stocks instead of leaving the market altogether; there was no sudden rise...