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...obsessed with speed and dogged by death, the Grand Prix de Monaco is a cheerful interlude. Only once, in 1952, was a driver killed in the race, and even the most daring racers-piloting cars capable of 180 m.p.h.-can average only about 70 m.p.h. around the twisty, 1.95-mi. Monte Carlo circuit...
Died. Gottlieb Duttweiler, 73. Swiss merchant titan who built the $250 million-a-year Migros cooperative food chain (also taxi fleets, sewing machines, Mi-grol gas and oil) by showing the Swiss how to fight price wars, then gave his super-marketing venture to his customers as their gain; of a heart attack; in Zurich...
Hong Kong was somewhat skeptical of Chiang's proposal. Formosa already claims a population density of 770 per sq. mi. (second only to The Netherlands), and its birth rate is greater than its annual increase in food. Besides, the screening process in the past has proved excruciatingly slow, and transportation was not readily available...
Brazil's enormous northeast bulge has more people-25 million-than Argentina, more land-597,353 sq. mi.-than all of Central America. If the Northeast was a separate nation, it would rank second in population, third in area, in South America. Last week a governor of one of the nine states that make up the Northeast-Aluizio Alves of Rio Grande do Norte-described another feature of the region. "It is," said he, "the biggest blight on the Western Hemisphere, with dangers enough to be six Cubas...
...state capital, was celebrating the holiday by watching his four-year-old daughter wave sparklers in the warm desert evening. Then the phone rang. Murder had been done in Monticello, a tiny village 150 miles away. Correspondent Mullins, whose beat covers four counties and 17,488 sq. mi., is thoroughly conditioned to long-distance assignments; he wasted no time getting to work...