Market report shows gains and mixed moves across blue chips
New York trading midday delivered gains for many blue chip issues while several sectors lagged. Du Pont rose over 3 points Eastman Kodak gained two or more and Union Carbide climbed near 2, IBM and Polaroid advanced, while steels motors and aerospace slipped. Dow Jones and Associated Press averages rose as earnings rumors and demand influenced prices.
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Inland Steel
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Kratter
Mead Johnson
Tri-Continental
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TWA
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Syntex
Astrodata
Barnes Engineering
New York Stock Exchange
Over-Counter Stock Quotes From Regional Firms
Unofficial bid and ask ranges compiled from NASD data and other sources. Figures show approximate current ranges for listed securities, not actual transactions, with bids and asks varying by issuer and market conditions.
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Girl Lost in Tar Pit Is Found Safe
Los Angeles AP reports 21 year old student Linden Hall returned home after authorities feared a tar pit mystery might mirror wildlife legends. Hall had been studying fossilized mammoths and saber tooths but was later located unharmed.
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Lendie Hall
Woman leaps from bridge amid leprosy fear and family woes
A distressed Hawaii family faces stigma as a leprosy patient husband describes his wife missing after she feared pregnancy could reawaken her illness. Police search from a bridge near La Brea tar pits follows reports of a young woman jumping, with the case echoing a 1937 stunt survivor.
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U S Pilot Survives 2 Crashes in Vietnam Zone
Captain Jude R. McNamara of Davenport Iowa survived two crashes in Communist territory near Moc Hoa and Ca Mau in four days. He reported performing emergency procedures and bailing out after both Skyraiders suffered engine trouble, with aircraft destroyed on the ground and him evacuated by helicopter.
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Captain and crew rescued after freighter crisis at sea
Captain Frederick W. Mohle and three crew members rejoined a rescue ship after most of the crew abandoned the 459 foot Smith Voyager amid a cracked hull and 10,000 ton cargo. The ship sat toppled on 2,000 fathoms of Atlantic water 780 miles southeast of Bermuda as a tow effort began. Four of the 42 crew members died and 34 were rescued by a German freighter on Sunday.
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Frederick W. Mohle
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Mohle
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Fighter praises new craft with Navy potential
Air Force Secretary Eugene Zuckert calls the milestone in a significant national security program, praising the aircrafts versatility for mobility and speed. The fighter features a variable sweep wing, enabling slow flight with spread wings and high speed with wings tucked, capable of 2.5 times the speed of sound.
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Air Force
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ZIP Code Proving Big Help To Santa Claus This Season
Chicago post office leaders credit ZIP code parcel post distribution with reducing backlog and speeding Christmas deliveries. Officials cite 17 percent less parcel post handling and improved staging nationwide since implementing sectional center distribution points.
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Santa Claus
Seymour M. Hersh
Clairborne Bolton
Cummings
Harry Semrow
Final Pentagon budget review under Johnson
President Johnson meets with Defense Secretary McNamara and military chiefs for a last look at the Pentagon budget. Defense outlays run about half of federal spending with estimates near 97.2 billion this year and a target under 100 billion for next year. NASA and Treasury officials join discussions at the LBJ Ranch as talks consider cutting low priority space projects and upper grade payroll growth. UDALL, WIRTZ, and HODGES push Johnson against Budget Director Gordon’s proposed cuts while Interior, Labor, and Commerce budgets loom.
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Government Tries To Avert Atlantic Dock Strike
The Johnson administration moves to head off a wildcat walkout crippling New York and Baltimore docks. Labor officials plan talks in Houston and Galveston while Newark and Gulf port workers monitor developments as a tentative four year contract offers wage gains and crew size reductions.
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Johnson
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James J. Reynolds
Houston
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W. Willard Wirtz
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Power struggle in Saigon as Khanh faces Young Turks purge
Secret meetings unfold in Saigon with generals and U S officials moving between offices. Washington fears a return to military rule in South Vietnam after Khanh led nine months of rule. The Young Turks arrest many civilian leaders while factions split among old officers, Khanh loyalists, and pro civilian groups. Reports say three battalions mass near the airport and Communist mortars damaged 27 American planes at Bien Hoa on November 1.
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High National Council
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