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...Manhattan's modestly housed Commodity Exchange, some 60 brokers pressed around the mahogany rail circling a sunken trading pit as a bell rang promptly at 9:50 a.m. "March," intoned the exchange's trading superintendent, Patrick J. White, from his elevated perch at the edge of the ring. "Ninety," shouted Herbert Coyne of the commodity firm of Rayner & Stonington Inc. "Sold," cried Robert Marcus of Imperial Commodities Corp. A beige-jacketed clerk chalked the figure on a blackboard...
...walls; more often they were social militias. Their targets were wooden birds atop staffs, a custom recalled in the Cracow fraternity's emblem, which was the gift of Sigismund Augustus in 1565, with its silver cock resplendent in royal crown and symbolically attached by a chain to its perch. Poland has been partitioned out of existence only to re-emerge as a nation, changed again under present-day Communism, but its ancient traditions are preserved in its art. In fact the shooting fraternity of Cracow still exists. Each year they parade with a replica of their royal bird...
...little company reenacting the death of the Revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat at the hand of the Royalist Charlotte Corday, before a stage audience of Charenton's director and his lady. But the murder is strung out by the philosophical intrusions of Sade, who leaves his stage-side perch to argue with Marat and deflect the action; by the blank verse narration of the herald, who prompts, cajoles and apologizes; by the petulant interruptions of M. Courmier, upset by the political content of the skit; and by the eruptions of the mental patients, who are paradoxically part of, and apart...
...demands of the long migratory flights of the novel. A rare and precious bird is he, protected by the wardens of The New Yorker magazine, who might justly feel that if it were not for them, such gaudy songbirds might die out for having no place to perch, let alone feed. All 20 of Updike's new collection have been published in that magazine...
...Allen, a progressive, moderate official who is as protective of Negro rights as he is of Atlanta's reputation, mounted a police car to plead for reason. But no one, it appeared, cared to listen much. Amid cries of "White devil!", the rioters shook the mayor off his perch. Undaunted, Allen waded into the mob, spent the next few hours trying to calm the rioters. By the time they finally dispersed, 16 persons had been injured and 73 were under arrest...