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Reports are also trickling out of fighting in a dozen other provinces, including Yunnan, Szechwan, Sinkiang and Inner Mongolia. Some of the worst fighting has been in Canton, Kwang-tung's capital and the south's largest city (pop. 2,500,000), where several hundred have been killed in clashes centering on the downtown Pearl River bridge. The victims found in the Pearl last week were probably Cantonese...
...public, as "pessoal," or personnel. Until recently, that comradely term reflected to other members of the outlawed Metropolitan Students Union of Rio de Janeiro's Federal University. Last week, however, Palmeira led 25,000 people along Rio's Avenida Rio Branco in Brazil's largest public demonstration in four years #151; and those who walked with him included ordinary citizens, writers, professors, a labor leader and Roman Catholic nuns and priests. Thousands more waved signs and tossed confetti from office buildings. For the moment, at least, united in protest against Brazil's military-dominated regime, Palmeira...
Died. Russell V. Downing, 67, president and director from 1952-66 of New York's Radio City Music Hall, world's largest indoor movie theater (6,200 seats); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In the 36 years of its existence, Downing was proud to point out, the Music Hall not only kept to the "family movie" formula, but attracted more than 200 million paying customers at a rate of 6,000,000 a year-more than the annual number of visitors to the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty and United Nations combined...
Sensitive to the outcry, Springer last week went part way toward satisfying his critics. In a surprise move, he sold five of his magazines. Das Neue Blatt, a gossip weekly with a circulation of 1,140,000, was bought for $7.5 million by Heinrich Bauer, Germany's second largest publisher. A small printing and publishing concern, Weitpert, paid about $19 million for the four other publications...
Possibly because of his own size (6 ft. 4 in., 212 Ibs.), Continental Airlines President Robert Forman Six has an obsession about the company that he has headed for 30 years: he would like tenth-largest Continental to be the biggest in some aspect of the aviation industry. Last week, three days after his 61st birthday, Bob Six got his wish. At Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, Continental's president dedicated a new $6,500,000 air-cargo terminal that is the biggest such structure in the world. If it were picked up, straightened...