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DIED. Vincent du Vigneaud, 77, winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his synthesis of two pituitary hormones; of a stroke; in White Plains, N. Y. Chairman of the biochemistry department at Cornell University Medical College, Du Vigneaud headed a team of scientists who succeeded in 1946 in synthesizing penicillin, the climax of years of work by an international task force...
...horns sounded a deafening tattoo in the streets of Caracas last week as Venezuelans hailed the outcome of their fifth free presidential election in 20 years. The surprise result: a defeat for the ruling left-liberal Acción Democrática Party, the country's dominant political organization...
...winner, portly, avuncular Lawyer-Politician Luis Herrera Campins, 53, leader of the centrist Social Christian Party, got some 47% of the vote. That put him well ahead of the field of nine other candidates, including Acción Democrática's Luis Piñerua Ordaz, 57, who won roughly...
Indeed it was. Following Garth's script, Herrera hammered away on one theme: Acción Democrática had accomplished too little with the wealth that Venezuela had gained as a result of the rise in oil prices after 1973. Though the money enabled the Pérez administration to triple government spending in five years, to $10.7 billion in 1978, many of Venezuela's 13 million citizens felt that they had gotten less than a trickle of the oil windfall. Venezuela's per capita income has risen sharply and is now, at $2,357, South...
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes: Hearts of Stone (Epic). The rave-up record of the season, a terrific broadside of roadhouse rock 'n' roll performed at white heat by Singer Southside Johnny Lyon and the hard-driving Jukes. The album includes a couple of original Bruce Springsteen tunes and a stunning ballad, Light Don't Shine, by Steve Van Zandt. Save Hearts of Stone for New Year's, then kick out the jams...