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Through the rubble heap that had once been the quiet farming village of Buin walked Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Iran. On either side, the ruins of mud-brick houses were piled high above him; the sickening stench of unburied bodies poisoned the air. Grimy, sobbing villagers milled around him. "I have lost all I had. O Father of the Nation," cried one old woman, falling to her knees. "My husband, two sons, four daughters, and my two brothers with their nine children...
...victims were then shoved against a barbed-wire fence and machine guns opened fire. The doctor screamed and threw himself to the ground, bringing the men tied to him down on top of him. Two bullets ripped his right shoulder, another grazed his right hand; the men atop the heap were dead...
...Pigeon That Took Rome lays a heap of small eggs that scramble surprisingly well. Coo-coo comedy is intended, and Pigeon gets off to a flying start as two G.I.s (Charlton Heston and Harry Guardino) sneak into Nazi-controlled Rome disguised as priests. Their mission: to spy on the Germans and send their reports out by carrier pigeon. Unfortunately, the priests meet a couple of broads (Elsa Martinelli and Gabriella Pallotta), and the pigeons meet with fowl play-they end up in a pot. Next day a sneaky schoolboy steals a fresh flock of pigeons from Gestapo headquarters...
...cars this year. Ford, which usually runs neck and neck with Chevy, is far behind, with production of its standard-sized Galaxie barely topping 400,000. (Counting all models, Ford has produced 842,000 cars since January, v. 1,300,000 for Chevy.) At the bottom of the heap among the Big Three is Chrysler, whose production of four low-priced lines (Plymouth, Valiant, Dodge Dart and Lancer) adds up to only 288,000 cars so far in 1962-just ahead of the 282,000 Ramblers produced by American Motors. But despite its reduced share of the auto market, Chrysler...
...Louisiana purchase not only set a record but hoisted Sam Newhouse to the top of the heap. With 19 dailies having a combined daily and Sunday circulation of 5,700,000, he now owns, in whole or part, more newspapers than anyone else in the U.S.; he has one more than the Scripps-Howard chain, eight more than the shriveled empire governed by the descendants of William Randolph Hearst (although the circulation of Scripps-Howard and Hearst each exceeds that of the Newhouse papers). Nor does Newhouse's ascendancy end there. Scripps-Howard, Hearst, and the whole U.S. newspaper field...