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...estimated 121.5 million people. Already given up for lost by the P.D.S. was the governor's race in the wealthy state of Sao Paulo (pop. 25 million), the teeming industrial hub that produces about 40% of Brazil's $283 billion gross domestic product. The likely winner in São Paulo was Andre Franco Montoro, 66, candidate of the center-left Brazilian Democratic Movement (P.M.D.B.). Said Montoro of his assumed victory: "Our only commitment is to substitute democratic practice for the abuse of power...
...Crimson then scored what turned out to the game-winner when Diane Hurley managed to sneak the puck past Bjork at the 11:20 point of the second stanza. With assists from Liz Ward and Newell. Hurley skated down the left side of the rink and took the shot off a well-led pass from Newell...
...Civic Center was not much relieved by Rocky-style bunting tacked over a small ring. Eight or ten thousand spectators contributed a dollar or two admission price to charity. They savaged M.C. Howard Cosell, who demanded, "All right, quiet!" And they serenaded Muhammad Ali, who looked like the winner of a pie-eating contest...
DIED. Miriam Ottenberg, 68, investigative journalist for the Washington Star (1937-75) and winner of a 1960 Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles exposing the crooked techniques of used-car salesmen; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. Ottenberg would often impersonate a typical consumer, expose a fraudulent business, and then write about the laws that were instituted or adapted as a result. Said Robert Kennedy when he was Attorney General: "I sometimes think she is the secret head of the Justice Department...
Konstantin Chernenko, 71, the silver-haired party chief administrator, then rose. As every Soviet citizen knew, Chernenko had been Andropov's main competitor for the succession. Now, in a deft and effective political gesture, the rival was moving to nominate the winner, thus symbolizing the need to close ranks. "Dear Comrades, all of us are obviously aware that it is extremely difficult to repair the loss inflicted on us by the death of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev," Chernenko said. "It is now twice, three times as important to conduct matters in the party collectively." Chernenko, a close protege of Brezhnev...