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...Boswell of the small investor is Garfield Albee Drew, a controversial Boston chartist. He tries to call turns in the stock market by keeping careful tab on the odd-lotter-generally the small investor who buys and sells in lots of less than 100 shares. Mustachioed "Jeff" Drew (5 ft. 6 in. and 57), has an unusual attitude toward his subjects: he thinks that they are usually wrong. Small investors, says Drew, are most wrong just when the stock market is making important changes in trends; they sell when the market is getting ready to advance and buy when...
Still, jazz survived. Smuggled U.S. recordings were duplicated on X-ray plates, bootlegged for fantastic prices (tab for an Elvis Presley disk: $12.50). Musicians copied new Louis Armstrong arrangements from Western radio programs. Students begged visiting U.S. musicians to play rock 'n' roll. Clandestine jazz bands became so common in Leningrad that the Young Communist League formed roving ''Nightingale Patrols" to stamp them...
...July party, when as many as 5,000 Americans in town drop by. (The British ambassador in Washington gets an estimated $100,000 for expenses.) Result: the U.S. jobs go regularly to wealthy campaign contributors-some good, some poor -who can afford to foot the five-figure expense tab...
Somewhere in the Russian hinterland last week a giant rocket hurled aloft a five-ton spaceship containing two dogs named Pchelka (Little Bee) and Mushka (Little Fly), a quantity of other unspecified plants and animals, and myriad electronic gadgets for keeping radio tab on the passengers...
Seven similar check-processing centers are already in operation in other areas of the state, and the new center will keep tab on their operations as well, maintaining a running picture of the bank's business in all of its 702 California branches. Computers in the new center will scan a list of 349,300 of the bank's real estate and installment loans, send reminders to delinquents. By Teletype the center is linked to the bank's 72 overseas offices. The center is the latest example of the revolutionary changes banks are going through to keep...