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...vote ended months of uncertainty over who would hold power in Lisbon. The Socialists, who are the largest party in the fractious Assembly, rejected the previous government, which was formed last summer by Alfredo Nobre da Costa, an apolitical technocrat, at the behest of President Antonio Ramalho Eanes. Eanes had just dropped Socialist Party Chief Mario Scares from the premiership after his governing coalition with the conservative Center Democrats fell apart. Scares was incensed by his ouster and was particularly upset because Eanes had not consulted the political parties before choosing Nobre da Costa. The former Premier insisted Eanes' action...
...federal antipollution laws have forced U.S. automakers to shift to production of cars unsuited for leaded fuels. Lead hampers the functioning of so-called catalytic converters, which remove pollutants like nitrous oxide from auto exhausts. Surging demand for unleaded fuel has driven Shell Oil Co., the nation's largest gasoline retailer, and Amoco Oil Co., the leading producer of unleaded gas, to begin limiting deliveries to dealers. Mobil and other companies are also hard pressed to meet demand...
Geraldine Waterbury of Gridley, Calif., turned to farming after raising a family and has just produced the largest crop yield of kiwi fruit in the state's history-15 tons per acre. She markets them at $2 per lb. to the Japanese, who consider the fuzzy fruit a rare delicacy. Tom O'Toole, a Detroit tinkerer, has invented a single-cup coffee brewer that he has begun to market to the Japanese. Next he will send them his production molds, which are priced at $90,000 and produce up to 15,000 brewers a day. Tolona Pizza Products...
DIED. Harry Winston, 82, showy Fifth Avenue gem merchant who sold $175 million worth of precious stones annually; of a heart attack; in New York City. A jewelry salesman from age 15, Winston became one of the world's largest diamond dealers by outbidding competitors for famous stones like the Jonker and Hope as well as by producing cheap engagement rings wholesale for Montgomery Ward. His refusal to be photographed, ostensibly to avoid being recognized and possibly robbed, only increased his visibility in business...
...world's largest Gothic cathedral is not in France. It sits on Morningside Heights in Manhattan and after 86 years is still unfinished. Construction stopped on the Episcopal Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine at the outset of World War II and was never resumed; church leaders thought it improper to spend money on bricks and mortar in the face of poverty and social crisis in nearby Harlem. But last week Bishop Paul Moore Jr., 59, announced a change of policy: building will start again in June. "Confrontation, picketing and burning down are not the order...