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...China's National Day, when Mao and all other Red bigwigs would be standing on a reviewing stand before Peking's Heavenly Peace Gate, the plotters had intended to blow them all to kingdom come with a trench mortar. Eight men were accused and quickly convicted: Antonio Riva, wealthy, high-living Italian trader who once boasted he could do business under any kind of Chinese regime, and Ruichi Yamaguchi, a scholarly Japanese bookseller-death; Italian Bishop Tarcisio Martina, 64, longtime head of the Roman Catholic diocese of Yihsien in Hopei province-life imprisonment; four foreign-born old China...
...executions of Riva and Yamaguchi were carried out immediately after the "plot" was announced. Reported Radio Peking: as the condemned were led to their death, "the streets they passed through were thronged with people who expressed their feelings .. . with shouts of 'Down with imperialism! Suppress counterrevolutionaries! Long live Chairman...
Westinghouse Summer Theater (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Maria Riva in The Rabbit...
Summer Theater (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Maria Riva in Molnar's The Swan...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Rembrandt, with Berry Kroeger, Maria Riva...