STREET GAMBLERS INVEST IN UNUSUAL FORM OF INSURANCE
The New York Stock Exchange installed bulletproof glass panels on its visitors' gallery November 21. The glass, laminated with sheets of plastic, is one and three-sixteenths inches thick and will stop a bullet from almost any arm that could easily be concealed by a visi-~ tor on the guided tours that have been one of Wall Street's attractions for tourists since 1938.
Last August 24 a dozen "flower children," more prosaically known as “hippies," threw dollar bills from the gallery to the crowded floor of clerks and brokers fifteen feet below. The New York Times reported: "Officials at the exchange recall no incident of objects any heavier than dollar bills being dropped or tossed from the gallery. 'But there is always a chance of it,' an exchange spokesman said."
The chance has always existed, of course, but the spokesman offered no explanation as to what factors in the domestic or international situation in the recent period may have increased the odds to such an extent as to call for investment in this unusual form of insurance.