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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swinging with the Smart. The technicians practice Wall Street's most ar cane - some are unkind enough to say inane - art. In deciding whether to buy or sell a stock, the purists among them profess to care less about such fundamentals as a company's assets, its earnings, its management or even what it does. Instead, the chartists divine the fu ture of a stock by poring over a dis play of its past performance. The zigs and zags may ignore the fundamental "facts," but more important, technicians argue, the charts reflect what the mar ket knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: The Masters of Zig and Zag | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...remarkably candid about the pressures that he faces from Portugal's archconservative military and landowners on one side and the restless liberals on the other. "We have sought to create a political climate free from hatred or retaliations that will permit normal relations between those who profess different opinions," said Caetano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portugal: A Second Salazar? | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...international trade for a generation has been the flow of U.S. corporate capital to Europe. From $1.7 billion in 1950, it grew last year to $20 billion. The cash has not only fueled much of the postwar European boom but has created controversy among Europeans, particularly in France, who profess worry about an American economic "takeover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: Swing of the Pendulum: Investing in the U.S. | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

Actually, her choice of Onassis may well represent a distillation of many desires. Onassis is a man of considerable magnetism. Some of his friends profess to see him as part Alexander the Great (for whom he probably named his son), part a Hellenic Great Gatsby. He is iron-willed, infinitely considerate of his women, vain of his limitless ability to charm, entertain and protect those whom he likes or loves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FROM CAMELOT TO ELYSIUM (VIA OLYMPIC AIRWAYS) | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...sought to do away with denominational differences. The founder was the Rev. Thomas Campbell, a Presbyterian minister from Pennsylvania who wanted to unite all men on a few basics of belief. Christianity, he argued, is "essentially and constitutionally one church made up of all those in every place who profess their faith in Jesus Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protestants: Disciplined Disciples | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

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