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Lawsuits happen even in the best-kept homes. Hyperhomemaker Martha Stewart has been taken to court by a gardener, Renaldo Abreu, for overtime pay. He maintains that Stewart never paid him for nonhorticultural tasks, such as cleaning up after the cat. Stewart's lawyers contend that agricultural workers aren't entitled to overtime and his $56,000 salary was fair...
...Julio Abreu, general director of the financially shaky hotel and ticket consortium Mundiespaña, blamed the general recession. Ajusting his once Olympian ambitions, he says: "We will not go bankrupt." But despite reports of severe losses to operators of travel, merchandising and ticket sales abroad, FIFA is still bragging that its eventual gross-helped along by revenue from three special Spanish lotteries-will more than cover the Spanish government's $40 million outlay...
...other candidates for the P.D.P. nomination immediately surfaced: Senate Majority Leader Luis Negrón López, 58, and Santiago Polanco Abreu, 47, the island's commissioner in Washington. Waiting to profit from the P.D.P.'s current split is Industrialist Luis Ferré, head of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party...
Adhemar was intent on installing his own man, but Castello Branco picked out Abreu Sodré, a reform-minded São Paulo lawyer, for the Governor's job. Since the election was to be decided by the state legislature, where the revolution held a bandwagon majority, Adhemar's only hope was to woo the assemblymen's votes, and he went about it with all the fury that money and patronage could buy. He handed out 13,000 state jobs in five days, sometimes nominating as many as three people to the same position. And when Castello...
Died. Antônio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz, 81, Portuguese neurologist, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1949 as the first man to devise an operation for the treatment of mental disorders (the prefrontal lobotomy), Portuguese Foreign Minister from 1918-19; in Lisbon...