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...York Stock Exchange was not the only exchange to exceed itself last week. In Japan, on the football-field-sized trading floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, prices rose until they surpassed their previous peak, set on July 18, 1961. Japan's Dow Jones average -calculated in roughly the same way as the American Dow-Jones but otherwise unrelated - closed for the day at 1,839 yen ($5.09), ten points above the seven-year-old record...
Citroën's share of the French auto market has skidded to 21% since 1965, when it held a peak 31%. Profits have vanished, despite 1967 sales of 500,000 cars worth $896 million. Piling trouble upon trouble, Citroën last year bought Berliet trucks, which has earnings problems of its own, and began tooling up for a medium-size car, still three years off, in cooperation with Germany's NSU. Early this year, having also started work on a fast, Maserati-powered touring car, Citroën went to the government for $60 million. Bercot...
...expansion, investors bid stock prices up to a new high for the year. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 7.83 points in a day to reach 938.28. At that level, it had climbed 68.63 points from its Aug. 9 summer low; it stood only a shade below its 1967 peak of 943.08. Standard & Poor's 500-stock index inched up 0.35 points to its own 1968 high...
...aging Uncle Man'Antônio in Nothingness and the Human Condition gives away all that he has accumulated during an eventful, prosperous life. "He no longer questioned anything - horizon or eternity - peak or zenith. And so he lived, carrying the burden of years, erect, serene, and doing a doing-nothing with all his might, in acceptance of the emptiness, the ever-repeated inconsequence, of his life...
Harvard frosh aces Mike Koerner and Rick Jurgens are not in peak form, and the Yardlings may have to depend upon their relatively untested backup runners to break up Penn's scorers...