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...question. Again applying these general conceptions to the microcosm that is Harvard, I believe that there is at least a fair chance that the Dow episode might turn out to be a minor breakdown of law and order with constructive consequences. If that is the result, we shall all owe it to the students who took part in the obstruction...
...sure way to turn stockbrokers into reticent men is to broach the sensitive subject of their profits. Securities dealers owe much of their livelihood to investor confidence built up by public disclosure of corporate earnings. Yet the overwhelming majority of them consider their own net incomes to be nobody else's business. This double standard is well entrenched, wholly legal and-at least from a broker's view point-eminently logical. After all, partly by resisting demands for more such data, Wall Street has so far fended off the Securities and Exchange Commission's four-year...
Though he will have considerably broader authority than the city's cumbersome three-man executive board, Washington, who will govern with a yet to be appointed nine-man city council, will have less authority than most other big-city mayors. Not only will he owe his $28,500 job ($6,500 less than he made in New York) to the White House rather than the city's voters, but he must also pass his budget through Congress, most particularly the frequently unsympathetic House District Committee...
About 15,000 people were gathered on the grounds of the Washington Monument, and they all laughed when Joan Baez, 26, hefted her guitar and said, "I would like very much to thank the Daughters of the American Revolution for all the publicity." Joanie really did owe the poor dears of the D.A.R. a vote of thanks-for stumbling over her boobytrap. It seems that Joan had determined as long ago as May that the D.A.R. would refuse permission for her to use its 3,800-seat Convention Hall for a folk-singing peace-in, had quietly arranged with...
Constance Garnett was a fine lady with a tin ear who translated the great 19th century Russian writers into a Victorian taffeta Modern Library prose. We owe her much thanks for her hardihood, but it is refreshing to find out every so often that Dostoevsky really didn't write that funny way. The Loeb Repertory Company has staged a collection of scenes from Crime and Punishment that pierces through the Garnettian fog to something close to the original electricity of Dostoevsky...