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...stormed the campus of Brasilia University, Congressman Marcio Moreira Alves rose in Brazil's Chamber of Deputies and urged his countrymen to boycott Independence Day military parades to show their disapproval. Last week that seemingly insignificant act led to some startlingly drastic consequences for South America's biggest, most populous nation. The government imposed censorship on the country's radio and press, put the armed forces on alert, sent tanks rumbling down Rio de Janeiro's broad Avenida Brasil and, finally, suspended Brazil's constitution and shut down its Congress-both indefinitely. . Nest of Torturers...
...Town, Journey to the Unknown, The Felony Squad and Operation: Entertainment. The network is also jettisoning The Dick Cavett Show (TIME, March 22), one of TV's most literate daytime programs, which rarely ranked higher than 35th among the 35 daytime shows included in the ratings. But the biggest casualty is likely to be Peyton Place, originally seen on ABC twice a week and at one point increased to three times a week. The five-year-old show has tumbled to the bottom third of the Nielsen rankings of prime-time programs. Next month, it will be cut back...
...transactions will be off from last year, the average 16% that the firms earn on invested capital compares well with any other line of U.S. business. Then, of course, there are those celebrated Wall Street Christmas bonuses -even though many brokers are cutting back a bit. At Merrill Lynch, biggest of all, employees with more than 20 years' service, who collected an ex tra 23 weeks' salary last Christmas, will get only 22 weeks extra this year. Five-to ten-year men will get 17 weeks' extra pay, down from 18 weeks last year. But Merrill Lynch...
Swiss bankers admit that numbered accounts have been exploited, but they put most of the blame on the 100 or so foreign-owned banks in their country and only a handful of small, Swiss-owned institutions. They insist that, contrary to legend, the biggest banks do not cater to South American dictators or Mafia magnates. Moreover, the overwhelming majority of the thousands of numbered accounts belong to Europeans rather than Americans...
...language requirements are the biggest problem," one students said before the meeting. "We're required to know four languages for generals in Far Eastern Languages. And that just wastes our time. People don't speak Harvard Chinese in China. We have to learn it all over again anyway when we leave the country...