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...Rice, 27, to take over some day. With a B. A. in journalism from the University of Southern California, Rice is in charge of Ebony/ Jet Showcase! She says she has absorbed her father's management style: "Delegate freely . . . and check on it every chance you get." --By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Elizabeth Taylor/Chicago
DIED. Carlos P. Romulo, 86, eloquent Filipino diplomat who was twice his country's Foreign Minister (most notably from 1968 to 1984 under President Ferdinand Marcos), a signatory of the 1945 charter founding the United Nations and in 1949 the first Asian president of the General Assembly; in Manila. A newspaperman before World War II and a Pulitzer prizewinner (in 1942, for a series of articles on the Japanese military threat to Southeast Asia), Romulo served as a brigadier general on the staff of General Douglas MacArthur, for whom he coined the rallying cry "I shall return" that followed MacArthur...
DIED. Richard P. Condie, 87, director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir from 1957 to 1974, who brought it to world prominence with 15 national and international tours, 850 weekly radio concerts for the CBS network's Music and the Spoken Word, 50 record albums that totaled 4 million in sales, and even a hit single (the chorus's 1959 recording of Battle Hymn of the Republic); in Salt Lake City...
...sell everything" recommendation on Jan. 6, 1981, the Dow dropped 23.8 points in a single day. This year Granville issued The Warning, a book predicting a stock-market crash comparable to the disaster of 1929. Since the book appeared in September, the Dow has climbed 222 points. --By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Raji Samghabadi/New York
...Delta. The competition has produced much confusion, and the best fares are not always easy to find. But customers today have a better chance than ever of flying where they want to go, when they want to go and at a price they want to pay. --By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by B. Russell Leavitt/Atlanta and Thomas McCarroll/New York