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...Inman's widow Evelyn, settling the man's affairs was a trying task. More than anything else, he had wanted his diary published. He had commenced it on Dec. 27, 1918. It began, "Am I now very much interested in Genghis Khan?" Inman had a soft spot for brutes, his diary would reveal--all 17 million words, all 155 volumes. It took the late Evelyn Inman (she died last June) and two other trustees of his estate until 1977 to secure a publisher. Harvard University Press accepted the diarist's tonnage, then engaged Daniel Aaron, professor of English and American...
...Aquino, 52, widow of martyred Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino, has long been considered the candidate most capable of uniting all elements of the splintered democratic resistance to Marcos. Until recently, she had insisted she would not run. In late October, however, the soft-spoken leader said she might step forward if her supporters collected 1 million signatures backing her candidacy. Now speculation is rife in Manila that the deeply religious Mrs. Aquino may be on the verge of opposing Marcos on the election ballot...
...from the grand country estate of Lord and Lady Dedlock (Robin Bailey and Diana Rigg) to the drab chambers of Chancery and into the sad, grimy streets of London slums. South African Director Ross Devenish shot much of the drama in moody semidarkness, with scenes lit only by the soft glow of a lantern or the flickering of candlelight...
DIED. J. Paul Austin, 70, former president (1962-71) and chairman (1970-81) of Coca-Cola, who broadened the firm's product line with new soft drinks (Tab, Sprite), wines and fruit juices and led it through an expansion by ten times to $5 billion sales and more than $470 million in earnings; of Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease; in Atlanta. In 1978 Austin negotiated an exclusive agreement to market Coke in China; the same year he made another deal to sell Fanta Orange in the Soviet Union, ending Pepsi's monopoly on U.S. drink sales there...
...spasm of racial violence shattered seasonal hopes of peace and goodwill across South Africa. For the country's whites, all signs appeared to point to a new and ominous phase of killing, one that seemed to bear out recent warnings by the outlawed African National Congress (A.N.C.) that "soft" targets--meaning unarmed civilians, including whites--would no longer be off limits. Nonetheless, blacks suffered the brunt of the year-end violence. At least five people died in the township of Soweto, as militants fought with migrant workers who refused to observe a "black Christmas" boycott called by the militants...