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...acquisition: Knight will swap stock worth some $158 million for 77,100 Ridder shares and dominate the enlarged chain's board of directors. Knight has been expanding steadily since the late Charles L. Knight, a former editor of the Woman's Home Companion, bought the Akron Beacon Journal in 1906. Under Knight's sons, John S., 79, and James L., 64, the chain has grown to 16 metropolitan dailies, including the Miami Herald, the Detroit Free Press and the Philadelphia Inquirer...
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...working people. But because Allende devoted his life to the oppressed, because he tried to see that the undernourished children of the slums of Santiago would have milk to drink, he stands for all the Chilean junta's victims. For more than three years, Chile held out a beacon of hope to the rest of the world. It seemed to prove that people could take power over the places where they worked--over their own lives, in the last analysis--without violence, without infringing on traditional liberties, without an abrupt break with the past. Now that beacon is gone...
...working people. But because Allende devoted his life to the oppressed, because he tried to see that the undernourished children of the slums of Santiago would have milk to drink, he stands for all the Chilean junta's victims. For more than three years, Chile held out a beacon of hope to the rest of the world. It seemed to prove that people could take power over the places where they worked--over their own lives, in the last analysis--without violence, without infringing on traditional liberties, without an abrupt break with the past. Now that beacon is gone...
Died. Dr. Jacob L. Moreno, 83, controversial psychiatrist who developed the psychodrama therapeutic technique in the 1920s; after a long illness; in Beacon, N.Y. Trained in Vienna, Moreno came to believe that "orthodox psychoanalysis only makes a patient feel more self-conscious and lonely." He devised a kind of group-therapy theater in which participants assume roles onstage, spontaneously acting out their hang-ups and interacting with individuals on both sides of the footlights...