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...earthquake in Nicaragua, and his funeral quickly dissolved into a political event. A crowd swelling to 40,000 followed the coffin from the hospital mortuary to Chamorro's home and then to La Prensa's office. The angry marchers moved on to burn a Somoza-owned textile mill and a commercial blood bank that Chamorro had exposed for selling Nicaraguan blood abroad at a lucrative profit. Some stoned a police station; the cops responded by lobbing tear gas into La Prensa's building. The crowds shouted "Death to Somoza!" and "Down with Yankee imperialism!" Among a score...
...Republic on a 15-day tour. Besides his wife Joan and brood of three, Kennedy brought along three sisters, a brother-in-law, R.F.K.'s son Michael and J.F.K.'s daughter Caroline. The group, shooting photographs for TIME as they traveled, visited a silk weaving mill and a tea commune in Hangchow, a prison in Shanghai, and the Great Wall. In addition to seeing the sights, the Senator looked up relatives of some Massachusetts constituents and conferred with Foreign Minister Huang Hua and Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing. "I can't help being impressed...
Much of the northern half of Brooklyn is turning into Bushwicks. The white neighborhoods in the south half--Midwood, Flatlands, Brighton Beach, Mill Basin, Canarsie, Bay Ridge--look north and fear, because the poverty seems to be creeping ever closer. And for many of these people there's nowhere left to run. They're willing to make their stand, as they put it, because somebody has to. The older people especially, with fixed incomes and meager lives, lock themselves in at night to avoid becoming victims and tremble at approaching footsteps in the day--they have no place...
...bacteria. As the bacteria ingest the manure at a temperature of 120°, they give off a gas that is 65% methane. Donald D. Kaplan, owner of the feed lot, says that the project is expected to provide enough fuel for all his own operations, which include a feed mill, packing house and rendering plant -with "enough left over to supply a good part of the city of Bartow [pop. 12,000] with all the natural gas it needs." The commercial possibilities appear to intrigue United Technologies Corp. (annual sales: $5.2 billion). Its Hamilton-Standard division formed a joint venture...
Manager Whit Ford said the match was "not too much grist for the mill," although "few matches were total runaways." "Most of the games were 15-10 or 15-11 except for Nixon's," he added...