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Momentum investors pile into a stock, the narrative goes, and then pile out of it without paying any attention to the fundamentals, so that good buy-and-hold investors get whipsawed for no good reason.
Whipsawed between the need, on the one hand, to preserve good relations with the White House as it cautiously pushed the landmark civil-rights bill and, on the other, to placate the fiery young activists of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, King "clung to methods suited to his stature as a prince of the Negro church."