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DIED. Alfred Knopf, 91, New York book publisher for 69 years who brought to American readers a large part of the best contemporary literature of Europe, the U.S. and Latin America; in Purchase, N.Y. With his indispensable assistant Blanche Wolf, whom he married in 1916 (she died in 1966), Knopf brought out his first books only three years after he left college (Columbia), employing a Russian wolfhound as the firm's colophon. He not only had an uncanny ability to discover new writers who went on to achieve permanence and literary prizes, but he also set and maintained...
...hundreds who perished in the messianic rebellion which swept Northeastern Brazil in the last years of the 19th century have twice achieved some measure of immortality. First they were the subject of Luclides da Cunha's classic Os Sertaos. And now Mario Vargas-Llosa, one of Latin America's most original novelists, has turned his attention to this ill-fated band...
Take the birth rate. Almost any plan to raise living standards would include government support of birth control, but Mexico is torn between its quasi-socialist political traditions and the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church (not to mention the Latin tradition of machismo...
...into the futures-and commodities-trading capital of the world. But trouble returned as a result of the bank's go-go lending during the 1970s. Under former Chairman Roger Anderson, who was eased out last February, Continental lent freely for oil and gas drilling, condominium development and Latin American projects; many of the projects went bust. The biggest blow came in September 1982, when Oklahoma City's Penn Square Bank failed. Continental held more than $1 billion in Penn Square's bad energy loans. Continental last week released the results of a 5½-month...
...Federal Aviation Administration in 1976 set a noise-rule deadline for U.S. airlines, and four years later extended it to foreign carriers. The Central and Latin American airlines estimate that installing noise-abatement equipment in their fleets would cost $1 billion and bankrupt many of them. Moreover, Richard H. Judy, director of the Dade County aviation department, predicts that more than 6,000 aviation jobs in Florida and an additional 1,000 south of the border will be lost unless the FAA extends the deadline to Jan. 1, 1988. So far, the FAA seems unwilling...