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...engineer, defeated the PTJ.P. candidate for the governorship two weeks ago, Muñoz waited a week to wish him luck. The 70-year-old statesman also held a post-election press conference to point out the error of Ferré's political ways. Luis Negrón López gave out a premature victory statement early on Election Night, when he was 15,000 votes ahead. When final returns showed him to be the loser by a margin of 390,000 to 367,000, Negrón sulked for four days before offering Ferré his congratulations...
Directed by the judge to fix the amount of damages, the jury awarded $1,021,500 to the estate of a 67-year-old Negro who was murdered in 1966. None of the defendants have been convicted of the murder, but one of them, James L. Jones, 58, confessed before his 1967 trial. He said that he had been present when Ernest Avants, 37, and Claude Fuller, 48, killed Ben Chester White, a caretaker who worked on a farm near Natchez. For no particular reason, said Jones, the three men took
...comes to dealing with the chronic balance-of-payments deficits. During the campaign, he promised to end President Johnson's mandatory controls on foreign investment "as soon as possible." That raised the specter of a precipitate outpouring of investment funds abroad and prompted Treasury Under Secretary Frederick L. Deming, a key member of L.B.J.'s economic team, to call the proposal "the height of irresponsibility." By the same token, supporters of the Johnson Administration's free-trade policies have been concerned about intimations by Nixon's aides that the U.S. might adopt a more protectionist attitude...
...L, also will sell the group of investors $17.5 million in debentures that are convertible into the common stock of Lytton Financial...
When the securities actually change hands next month, Lytton S&L plans to merge with two smaller Southern California savings-and-loan associations, Equitable of Long Branch (assets: $318 million) and Mission of Santa Ana (assets: $39 million). The mammoth merger was approved by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board two weeks ago, but financial men are more fascinated by the audacity of the move than by its size. Says one competitor: "Wellman is converting three alley cats into a pedigreed lion...