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...Stock Exchange, prices rose until they surpassed their previous peak, set on July 18, 1961. Japan's Dow Jones average -calculated in roughly the same way as the American Dow-Jones but otherwise unrelated - closed for the day at 1,839 yen ($5.09), ten points above the seven-year-old record...
...four years after he was judged an "immortal" worthy of being seated by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, Joāo Guimarāes Rosa donned the official gold-braided uniform and formally took his chair. Publicly, he explained the delay by saying he had been too busy to write his acceptance speech. Privately, he feared that becoming an "immortal" was an unnecessary challenge to his own mortality. Seventy-two hours after the ceremony, his seven-year-old niece went into his study to offer him some popcorn and found him dead of a heart attack...
Vanishing Sting. Yet no paper managed to cover Texas with more vigor, enthusiasm and sensitivity. Only the Observer, Morris says, ever bothered to show any interest "in the last words of a 17-year-old rapist on death row, or in the terror of a seven-year-old Negro child in an adult ward for the mentally ill, or in what Norman Mailer said or did not say to the college students in Austin." Unabashedly liberal and outspoken, the weekly was often exasperating, sometimes wrong, never humdrum or stale...
...bringing to 35 the number of states he has visited since he rejoined the race. He cracked jokes and lobster in Maine, clanged through the streets of Sioux City, Iowa, in a fireman's hat, was greeted on the green in New Haven, Conn., by Sybil, a seven-year-old elephant with a Rockefeller sticker on her trunk, and dropped in at the famous Humphrey drugstore in Huron, S. Dak., to pick up gifts for Happy and the two boys; when the $21.08 bill was rung up, he had to borrow $1 from an aide and 8? from...
Aftershocks & Quagmires. The search for victims continued for long, wearying hours. A seven-year-old girl was pulled out alive after more than two days in the wreckage of her home -though later she died of her injuries. The rescue of a 104-year-old woman ended in the same way: dug out from the debris, she succumbed on the way to a hospital. In Gibellina, the dead were piled on top of mossy sandstone tombs in the town cemetery...