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...went with a whistle. In five days of heavy trading, stocks on the New York Stock Exchange lost $8.7 billion of their value. Thursday was the worst. As 3,300,000 shares changed hands, the Dow-Jones industrial average plummeted 9.69 points, the rail average 4.59 points in the sharpest break since Oct. 10. 1955, the week after President Eisenhower's heart attack. Though a strong surge on Friday checked the losses, the attrition left the market average at 441.16, nearly 80 points below the alltime high set in April 1956 and almost exactly where it stood in June...
Manhattan-based Gossipist Miller's ineffable tastelessness sparked the sharpest rebuke ever dealt a reporter by the Eisenhower Administration. But the slur that caught Hagerty's eye was not inspired by mere partisan malice. In recent months, Miller's column has unstoppered fetid allegations about Adlai Stevenson that make the Nixon item seem fragrant...
...explained Knowland, "attacked Poland from the rear while she had her back against the wall") to a reminder that Senate Minority Leader Knowland had administered the vice-presidential oath to California's own Dick Nixon, and was a confidant of the President's. But Knowland's sharpest comments were saved for local issues on which he ' could bang away at Goodwin Knight, e.g. California's critical water shortage, the high state budget. He did not attack Knight by name, but he said pointedly that California needed "executive leadership," not "an on-again, off-again Finnegan...
Mikoyan, the Kremlin's agile Armenian, has made a career out of guessing right. Among the men who inherited Stalin's tyranny, his is the quickest and sharpest intelligence, and he is the slickest and shrewdest operator. He is the supreme Soviet trader, the one big Bolshevik to show both the talent and the will for business enterprise. As such, he not only organized a $120 billion-a-year retail trade (200 million customers) and a $6.2 billion-a-year overseas business, but in the process achieved an understanding of the wider world of trade and global politics...
...muscle kinks with knee bends, the Big Board bounced up and down last week; market leaders in steel, oil and aircraft tumbled as much as 2½ points in a day. On Monday, the Dow-Jones industrial average skidded 9.25 points to 478.95, for the market's sharpest break in nearly two years. Though intermittent rallies flickered across the floor at midweek, they could not make up the loss. More selling pushed stocks lower still, until by week's end the total attrition stood at 12.46 points, bringing the Dow-Jones average to 475.74, the lowest level since...