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Investors, from major corporations to individual stockholders, remain unfazed by stock-market plunge, regarding it as opportunity to shop for bargains; day after record 554.26-point drop, Dow Jones Industrial Average soared 337.17 points, greatest single-day point gain ever from investor share-shopping spree in which record 1.2 billion shares changed hands; photos (M)
Stocks Bounce Back In Record Trading Volume It was the busiest day ever on Wall Street, and one of the best. One day after plunging 554 points, the Dow industrials roared back, gaining 337.17 points, to 7,498.32. More than 1.2 billion shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange, 75 percent more than the previous record, set on Monday, and roughly twice the level during the 1987 market crash. Much of the buying was done in small trades that are the hallmark of individual investors. By contrast, institutional-size orders appear to have been largely sales. [Page A1.]
A preservation group is hoping to use shame to get emergency repairs for Ellis Island. PAGE B3 A tangled case against a former New Jersey coroner ends with a conviction. PAGE B8
Sri Lankan Muslims protest Government decision to allow British Broadcasting Corp to film five-part television movie titled Salim's Story, based on Salman Rushdie's 1981 Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight's Children; producers chose mainly Buddhist nation as their site after being turned down in India; photo of Rushdie; John Henry Redwood's play The Old Settler will have its West Coast premiere at Intiman Theater in Seattle, with Mary Alice as its star; pyramids of ancient Egypt's royal women, long overshadowed by larger pyramids of Egypt's male rulers; country singer Johnny Cash cancels concert and book promotions through December because he has Parkinson's disease; photo; officials at Westminster Abbey in London plan to commemorate Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr and nine others whom they consider to be 20th-century Christian martyrs (M)
A WEAK LINK -- When Hong Kong stumbles, must Wall Street fall? Page D1.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 29, 1997, covering October 29, 1997.
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1997Anton LaVey, American occultist, founded the Church of Satan (born 1930)[†]
Anton Szandor LaVey was an American writer, musician, and Satanist. He was the founder of the Church of Satan, the philosophy of LaVeyan Satanism, and the concept of Satanism. He authored several books, including The Satanic Bible, The Satanic Rituals, The Satanic Witch, The Devil's Notebook, and Satan Speaks! In addition, he released three albums, including The Satanic Mass, Satan Takes a Holiday, and Strange Music. He played a minor on-screen role and served as technical advisor for the 1975 film The Devil's Rain and served as host and narrator for Nick Bougas' 1989 mondo film Death Scenes.
1997Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist (born 1947)[†]
Dr. Andreas 'Andy' Gerasimos Michalitsianos was a Greek-American astronomer and a NASA astrophysicist, also known and published as Andrew G. Michalitsianos.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]