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...Christmas Eve the portly 55-year-old prince was brutally gunned down on a Paris street. Since then, despite a government assertion that the case has been solved, what began as a shocker killing has grown steadily more sensational, with hints of unsavory business dealings, a secret sex life, police corruption and even a high-level political coverup. As the French press dug into the scandal with rare gusto, the case brought public trust in Giscard's government...
...duck. While López Portillo was busy campaigning, the mercurial "Don Luis" continued working an 18-hour day-fueling rumors spread by his conservative critics that he intended to stay in power, possibly by means of a military coup. His last major act as President was a political shocker. Charging that wealthy landlords had violated Mexican law by masking their holdings under relatives' names, Echeverria two weeks ago ordered that 243,000 acres in Sonora's lush, irrigated Yaqui valley, worth about $80 million, be handed over to landless peasantry. The subsequent "invasion" of 8,000 farm...
...might seems that Columbia's chances for a similar shocker today would be hampered by the loss of starting quarterback Kevin Burns, who is sidelined with a hyperextended elbow, but sophomore back-up Cal Moffie from Newton should prove a decided plus from Harvard's standpoint. Cal's father, Harold Moffie, starred at halfback for the Crimson from 1947-50 and so young Moffie has a vested interest in bamboozling the Bruins...
...Nixon and the Republicans moved into the White House in 1969, but many signs of L.B.J.'s battle are still around. One of them is the U.S. Census Bureau's annual reckoning of how many Americans are "poor." The latest report, issued three weeks ago, was a shocker: it counted 12.3% of the total population-precisely 25.9 million Americans-as living at or below the poverty line, the highest percentage of poor since 1970. Worse still, there were 2.5 million more poor than in 1974, a record increase suggesting that a long period of decline in their number...
...latest trend in disco will not necessarily change all that, but it is still something of a shocker. Disco is going live-o. At the start, the focal point-of the average discotheque was that man in the glass booth-the one with the earphones on, the head bobbing rhythmically, the hands leaping adroitly from twin turntables to control sequencers. He was, and still is, the disc jockey, busily programming your dancing pleasure. Did the little lady want to dance the Hustle or the Muscle? Ol' Deejay had a ditty for every kitty and her boogying big daddy...