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Contents

Foreword ix

Preface: The Need for Additional Investment Books xix

Part I: Adjusting to Key Influences of the 1960’s 1

Stocks and Inflation; Institutional Buying; Foreign
Competition; Increased Population; The Economists
Go Out—The Psychologists Come In

Part II: How the Greatest Increases in Stock Values

Come About 70
Alert Corporate Management; A New Concept;
The Role of Institutional Buying; A Reward
Usually Overlooked

Part III: You and Where Your Investment Business

Must Go 91
Methods of Investment Evaluation; Five Steps for
Selecting the Right Investment Counselor

Part IV: Trivia but not Entirely 122

What About Mergers?; Voting Rights and Proxy Fights;
Should You Buy or Sell Stocks Because of U.S.
Election Prospects?

Part V: Major Growth Industries of the 1960’s 149

The Chemical Industry; The Electronics Industry;
The Pharmaceutical Industry; Other Interesting
Industries; The False Growth Stocks of the Immediate
Post-War Years

Index 205
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