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Comes Thursday evening in Brasilia, barring the gravest of national emergencies, the city empties as if somebody had pulled a plug. Congressmen slip out of the chamber, pick up their tickets at handy airline booths right in the lobby of the Congress building, and rush to catch the 7:30 Electra...
Besides, Teodoro Moscoso, U.S. boss of the Alliance for Progress, arrived in Lima last week to meet Belaunde and to discuss Peru's request for $80 million in aid, based on reforms being made. Both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate quickly approved the program. But the vote, said a spokesman for the opposition APRA Party, "merely extends to the government a line of credit for its intentions. Each of its projects will have to be debated together with similar projects presented by the opposition parties in order to seek a compromise...
...coral's edge; half a dozen gaudy parrot fish cruised along the ocean bottom, crunching and chittering as they fed. Cautiously, Roberts extended his gun toward the jewel fish, then quickly pulled the plunger, sucking his victim through the transparent barrel and down into the holding chamber below...
Died. Eric Allen Johnston, 66, dynamic apostle of a "new capitalism" as the four-time (1942-46) president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, savvy adviser and special envoy (to Latin America, Russia, the Middle East) for three U.S. Presidents, since 1945 Hollywood's unflagging champion as head of the Motion Picture Association; following a stroke; in Washington. A handsome, athletic extravert, Johnston began as a Spokane vacuum-cleaner salesman, became the Northwest's biggest independent appliance distributor. As movie watchdog, he led the campaign to blacklist movie Communists, coped with foreign competition by quietly liberalizing production codes...
...united behind the principle that it adopted at its founding in 1946: that it should serve all music while retaining a special interest in modern works. In its early years, it championed the works of Bartok and Schoenberg particularly, and it has played premieres of some of the best chamber music written in this century-notably the second quartets of Elliott Carter and Alberto Ginastera. Such missionary work has helped to stimulate a widening revival of interest in chamber music, and the Juilliard (which receives at least one new composition a week from hopeful composers) takes .paternal delight...