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...explosion, from a leaking gas tank in a commissary storeroom beneath the audience, had blasted a sheet of flame up through 128 of the Coliseum's choicest box seats, catapulting men and women-many still in their seats-in blazing arcs through the air. Slabs of concrete the size of small cars went up 50 ft., then slammed down on a crowded section of folding chairs below the box seats, crushing dozens and trapping many more in tons of debris...
Pressed by more than $18.5 million in debts. Industrialist Hugo Stinnes Jr., 66, a freewheeling and individualistic magnate who in only ten years has built a diversified $100 million empire in machinery, ships, electronics, plastics, oil, and filling stations, has been forced to sell off some of his choicest holdings to Munich Banker Rudolf Münemann. At week's end Stinnes was brought into a crowded Bremen courtroom to answer a $4.5 million suit brought by a German mines association, which is trying to recover special compensations that the association claims were wrongly paid four years...
Cairo did not reply for 24 hours, then roared back that Baath had ruined "the dearest aspiration of the Arabs, stabbing the union and tearing the charter into pieces." The Egyptians reserved their choicest words for the Baath lead ers in Damascus, who, Nasser's Arab Socialist Union said, had "sunk Syria in a sea of blood." Cairo even taunted the Syrians with a ditty. A singer asks, "Where are the free?" and a chorus answers, "They entered Mezza" (a Damascus prison). The singer then asks, "Where are the revolutionaries?" and the chorus comes back, "In Mezza...
WEEK in and week out, our correspondents see a lot of history being made; and having filed their stories to TIME, they are apt to continue thinking about their subject. Many of their choicest anecdotes, their best quotes and their ideas on the subject will have appeared in the magazine, but they also know that a cumulative survey of the events they have lived with and reflected upon will have its own special appeal. And so these trained observers, on their own time or on leave of absence, sit down to write correspondents' books, those valuable first steps into...
Since the already industrialized nations are getting the choicest assignments, they are naturally offering the least resistance, but Russia is still forced to field complaints and rebellion against COMECON policy from almost every quarter. Czechoslovakia and East Germany are reluctant to set up a common investment fund to help develop industry in member nations because they fear most of the capital will come from them. Poland, unable to get the goods it wants from COMECON neighbors, has signed treaties that will raise trade with the West by as much as 40% while it increases its COMECON purchases only 18%. Such...