no it was n't black monday </s>
but while the new york stock exchange did n't fall apart friday as the dow jones industrial average plunged N points most of it in the final hour it barely managed to stay this side of chaos </s>
some circuit breakers installed after the october N crash failed their first test traders say unable to cool the selling panic in both stocks and futures </s>
the N stock specialist firms on the big board floor the buyers and sellers of last resort who were criticized after the N crash once again could n't handle the selling pressure </s>
big investment banks refused to step up to the plate to support the beleaguered floor traders by buying big blocks of stock traders say </s>
heavy selling of standard & poor 's 500-stock index futures in chicago <unk> beat stocks downward </s>
seven big board stocks ual amr bankamerica walt disney capital cities\/abc philip morris and pacific telesis group stopped trading and never resumed </s>
the <unk> has already begun </s>