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...Fortnight ago, in Cochabamba, Bolivia's second biggest city, either police or pro-Paz campesinos fired into a mob of rioting students, killing one of the youths. That was all it took to trigger an open revolt by students, miners and agitators of every stripe. In mining centers, union radios crackled with calls for "popular rebellion" against "the bloody tyrant and assassin Paz Estenssoro." Lechin's well-armed miners fought pitched battles with government troops, and the first casualty reports told of some 50 dead...
...City's Wagner College this fall and began to devote full time to the pari-mutuel teaching machines on the oval campus of Yonkers Raceway. His discriminating bets on the trotters soon put him $15,000 ahead, surely enough to make him an honor student among dropouts. Then, fortnight ago, he broke the record at Yonkers U., picking twin-double winners two nights in succession and walking off with $176,482.20 in prize money (half the lifetime earnings of the average college graduate...
...several day ago, give or take a fortnight, there appeared (was seen) in Cambildge on the Churls what perverted to be an unvirused devaluation of In His Own Write. In our detestimation, the reviewer (what reviewed the book) was in his own spite like unto a hard dazed knight charging a fat breezy windmill on a three-legged horse. We view this hole unfair with gravid constipation. And all this not even to mention what we haven't mentioned. A Blazing Guy Forks Day, David Malln '66 and The Four Bagels
Chairman C. R. Smith had picked a man for the presidency of American Airlines, which became vacant fortnight ago when Marion Sadler quit in frustration and took off on a hunting trip in New England. And who was Sadler's successor? Why, it was Marion Sadler himself. No explanations were offered, no pronouncements delivered. Smith simply flashed one of his familiar, terse memos, known to insiders as "Smith-grams," to puzzled employees: "Good news! Mr. Marion Sadler is back at his desk this morning with the usual duties...
Revolving Doors. Curtis is in poor condition to support any kind of warfare, especially internal. Despite a special newspaper supplement fortnight ago to advertise its occupancy of the sparkling new Saturday Evening Post Building on Manhattan's Lexington Avenue, the company is in deep financial trouble. Since 1961 it has lost a total of $34.5 million-a figure that includes the $8,000,000 deficit recorded through September of this year. In 1963 Curtis was rescued from near bankruptcy by a last-minute $35 million loan from a group of six banks-a loan that must be repaid, with...