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...worth at least $5 million???which makes him considerably richer than most of the mighty or the flighty he interviews. Though he refers to his corporate conglomerate as "my cottage industry," Paradine,* Ltd. (the name, not incidentally, almost rhymes with paradigm) grosses an estimated $20 million a year. In addition to the $1 million he expects to garner from his Nixon interviews, he hopes to get a few farthings from his glossy Cinderella movie musical, The Slipper and the Rose; an eight-part TV series, Crossroads of Civilization, which is being shot on a $2.5 million budget in Iran...
...promised a massive "purification"?involving heavy purges, apparently?of China's 30 million???member Communist Party that would start with "bad elements" who had been "smuggled" into high positions. Under the pretext of setting higher standards for jobs, the new leadership is likely to purge all those suspected of complicity with the so-called Gang of Four conspirators led by Mao's ardently left-wing widow, Chiang Ch'ing (TIME, Jan. 3). If the four had not been arrested, Hua said, they would have "split our party and country and touched off a major civil...
...Venezuela are sufficiently prosperous to modernize their arsenals. They have purchased frigates and submarines from West Germany and Britain, Mirage fighter-bombers and howitzers from France and jet trainers from Italy. Peru last year startled its neighbors and Washington by turning to Moscow for arms costing about $85 million???some 600 T-54 and T-55 tanks, plus artillery and antiaircraft guns and missiles...
...public only through occasional tape recordings. Two weeks ago, however, the case seemed to be coming to a happy conclusion. To comply with the instructions of the S.L.A., the Hearst family and the Hearst Foundation (which mainly backs medical charities) passed out free food worth about $2.3 million???some $300,000 more than had been planned?to poor people in the San Francisco area. Hearst also talked the directors of the Hearst Corp., which publishes eight newspapers and eleven magazines (including Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar and Good Housekeeping), into putting an additional $4 million into an escrow account...
...version of Jonathan. The paperback rights have been sold to Avon for a cool $1.1 million???another record. People are beginning to compare Jonathan to Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince and Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet (favorably or not, according to taste) as a book likely to stay around forever. Says Bach, who does not exactly take Jonathan's commercial success with clench-jawed seriousness: "The way I figure, just by April 1975, the whole earth will be covered about two feet deep in copies of Jonathan L. Seagull." The question that itches away at all but the most...