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<LEGEND>
This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from the 59 Wall
Street Inflation Indexed Securities Fund Semi-Annual Report dated April 30, 1997
and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such report.
</LEGEND>
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<NUMBER> 05
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