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...Specials need every bit of their training to keep the peace. In his 15 years as a freelance cop, John Candido, outgoing president of the Patrol Special Police Officers' Association, has been roughed up, shot in the head and stabbed three times. Muses Candido: "I kick pimps out of hotels, I break up fights in rathole rooming houses. I look in garbage cans for bombs, I break up rapes, I save old ladies from fires, and I walk drunks home." The Grebmeiers have not yet encountered anything so violent. On a typical January night, they found no crime more...
...will probably be passed then, though insurgent leaders intend to mobilize all of the 380,000 shareholders. One of them, Giorgio Pisano, the manager of Candido magazine, vowed: "The battle has just begun." At the very least, Italian businessmen have seen an impressive sign of small-investor muscle. Other European industrialists cannot write off the incident as a show of Italian emotionalism. On the same day as the Montedison revolt, a determined band of West German shareholders did battle with the directors of the NSU auto manufacturing firm. As a result, they won the promise of a higher price...
...interior. Three-quarters of Brazil's 85 million people live within 100 miles of the coast; the rest are scattered in pockets of poverty across thousands of miles of inaccessible jungle and remote highlands. The government's solution was Projeto Rondón (named after Brazilian Explorer Candido Mariano da Silva Rondón), which takes student volunteers into Amazonia and the northeast territory for month-long "vacations" of unpaid toil among the area's impoverished people...
SINGER PRESENTS TONY BENNETT (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Tony Bennett, with eight top musicians as guest accompanists; Drummer Buddy Rich, Trumpeter Bobby Hackett, the Paul Home Quintet and Bongo Artist Candido...
...Died. Candido Portinari, 58, painter laureate of Brazil who sought to capture his country's garish blend of poverty and promise in giant murals done with a fiery palette mixed from Brazilian earths; of a stroke following cumulative lead poisoning induced by his own pigments; in Rio de Janeiro. An Italian immigrant's son who once painted signs for mule carts, Portinari was the first South American ever given a one-man show by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and, though an avowed Communist for much of his career, accepted commissions for a portrait of former...