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...funds do close to 7% of all the trading on the New York Stock Exchange, are the most active institutional investors, and their power is growing. In times of tough markets, small investors habitually dump their own shares and shift into funds, figuring that the professional money managers know best. This year investors have bought a net of $2.4 billion in fund shares, but the fund managers have put relatively little of this new money into the stock market. They turned bearish late last year, pared their purchasing in the first half of 1966, and in the third quarter actually...
Outgunned in open combat, the Viet Cong reverted to type, mortaring a number of isolated outposts and headquarters. For the second time in three weeks, guerrillas hit the Long Binh ammunition dump 13 miles north of Saigon. Under cover of mortar fire, Viet Cong penetrated the depot's perimeter, detonated a satchel charge against one ammunition pad, setting it afire. What makes Long Binh easy to attack-and difficult to damage seriously-is that each revetted pad is separated widely from all the others to prevent a chain reaction of explosions if one goes up. Red terrorists also...
Still, when it counted, Marino's forces stopped the Blue. On a key fourth-down play in the third quarter at the Crimson 20, the powerful sophomore stormed in to dump Lawler for a seven-yard loss...
...Commercial Bank; Chairman Albert Nikolaevich Belishchenko, 36, a career banker who was formerly vice-director of Moscow's Gosbank, says the name refers to the spaceships that the Russians launched in 1964 and 1965. Belishchenko takes pains to allay Swiss fears that Moscow will use the bank to dump gold and otherwise disrupt the tiny nation's financial ties to other Western countries. "The Soviet government wants to trade with all countries willing to trade with it," says he. "We are here to help finance this trade...
...didn't know how many civilian casualties U.S. troops had caused. Many students who heard McNamara Monday could only describe him in superlatives -- "one of the most callous, arrogant men I have ever seen," said one. So intense was two students disgust that they were prepared at first to dump bloody bones at the Secretary's feet as a gesture of protest...