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...Mexican author, educator, diplomat and statesman; by his own hand (gunshot); in Mexico City. Quintessentially the intellectual-in-politics-he published almost twoscore books-Torres Bodet held that illiteracy was a sinister enemy of democracy and international peace. After becoming Minister of Education in 1943, he launched a mammoth literacy campaign that in its first two years taught more than a million Mexicans to read and write. Named head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1948, he resigned four years later, arguing that a budget cut imperiled the agency's drive for social progress...
...whopping 90% of gross profits, compared with 50% other groups. Last year's 34-city Zeppelin tour of the U.S., arranged by Grant, earned an estimated $4 million for the group. To sweeten those figures-and his own income, estimated at $500,000 a year or more-the mammoth manager last week announced the birth of Swan Song, Led Zeppelin's own record company. With Grant as president, Swan Song may prove to be only a prelude...
...scheme is intended to cut Italy's mammoth trade deficit, thus easing the country's 15.5% inflation and relieving pressure on the beleaguered lira. Of all the countries in Europe, Italy is the most dependent on Arab oil and therefore the hardest hit by the quadrupling of petroleum prices in the past seven months. The government has been predicting that unless something drastic is done to curb imports, the trade deficit may reach a whopping $8 billion this year, more than half of which would go to meet the petroleum bill alone...
...good reputation, and they will deliver to Harvard dorms. Martignetti's (in Allston on Storrow Drive) is further away, but can be reached quickly by car. It will accept a check (with ID), and is one of the cheapest liquor stores around. This over-grown package store is a mammoth, bargain basement-type place, complete with shopping carts...
...disastrous consequences of such a trend can be seen in Kendall Square. Scores of blue collar industries were forced to move out of that area in the early sixties (at the cost of 3000 jobs) to make way for a mammoth NASA research center. Cutbacks in the space program in the late sixties forced the closing of the center after only one building had been completed; Kendall Square is now a multi-acre wasteland...