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...waste the chance. After attending a wrestling performance, he appeared at a state banquet to declare that "the Soviet Union is prepared to help Iran for the quickest possible exploitation of its natural resources." He also persuaded the Iranians to quintuple their Soviet trade, making Russia their biggest customer and biggest supplier. Finally, he talked the Shah into taking Russia in as a full partner in the exploitation of vast copper and oilfields that lie in central Iran. Even for Kosygin, it was an unusually profitable trip...
...followed, a bullet killed Edson Lima Souto, 18. Almost instantly he became a martyr, and the next day 20,000 persons marched with his body to the city's Sao Joao Batista Cemetery. Last week 16 special memorial Masses for Lima were held around the city. At the biggest service, saber-swinging horse guards rode right up onto the steps of Candalaria Church, galloping into the midst of startled students and bystanders as they left the service, forcing them to flee in every direction...
Slave or Free? One of the founders of General Motors and until recently one of its biggest stockholders (he has given away all but 92,000 shares), Mott funnels his millions through the Mott Foundation (TIME, June 28, 1963), which considers itself the nation's fourth largest foundation (assets fluctuate with market values, but the Ford, Rockefeller and Duke philanthropies are undoubtedly larger). It contributes directly to the school board ($3,477,141 this year)-but only after Mott and his aides study and approve of the board's plans for spending the money...
...transactions By closing, volume reached a record 17.73 million shares, toppling the old mark of 16.41 million shares set on Oct. 29, 1929, the Black Tuesday that triggered the Depression of the '30s. The Dow-Jones industrial average of 30 blue-chip industrial stocks jumped 20.58 points, its biggest one-day gain m 41 years. Traders agreed that it was an emotional outburst...
...biggest agencies are bigger than ever. They have had some troubles: Interpublic, a combination of 24 advertising, public relations and service agencies built around the corporate structure of second largest agency McCann-Erickson, has to be taken apart, shorn of some of its less productive components, and put together again without Founder Marion Harper. Even so, in spite of uncertain economic conditions, the ten largest agencies* have been doing very well. Last year, with total advertising-agency business slipping to an increase of less than 2%, the top ten-that jointly bill $3.27 billion-not only increased their business...