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...plot seemed to have been stolen from O. Henry's Cabbages and Kings. The action was confined mainly to the Guardia Nacional, the swaggering 5,000-man force that defends, polices and -nowadays-governs the tiny country of 1.3 million. Until problems of pride and suspicions of graft arose, Torrijos had been close to the two rebellious colonels. One of them, mustachioed Colonel Ramiro Silvera, 42, had spent much of his career as Panama's top traffic cop before becoming Torrijos' No. 2 man in the Guardia. The other plotter, popular Colonel Amado Sanjur, 38, was Silvera...
Sweden's dull-but-dirty skin flick I Am Curious (Yellow) was banned in Boston and remains banned, by a 7-1 vote of the U.S. Supreme Court that overturned a federal court decision against a censorious local tribunal. The lone dissenter was much-married Justice William O. Douglas, who emphasized that he voted as he did because he is against censorship-"not because, as frequently charged, I relish obscenity...
Married. Prudence Ann Farrow, 21, Mia's sister and second of Maureen O'Sullivan's four daughters; and Albert Bruns, 26, a teacher of transcendental meditation; in a Unitarian ceremony in Wallingford...
Died. General Arthur da Costa e Silva, 67, former President of Brazil, who in December 1968 ended all pretense of civilian government; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. A leader of the then-popular military coup that deposed Leftist João Goulart in 1964, Costa e Silva was elected President with army backing in 1966 and embarked on a program of tight political and economic control. Economic austerity worked wonders, but one politically repressive move followed another until Costa e Silva dissolved Congress and instituted rule by decree. Last August he suffered a paralytic stroke...
Died. Frank ("Lefty") O'Doul, 72, baseball great of the 1920s and '30s; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. O'Doul wasted eight seasons until 1924 as a mediocre pitcher before realizing that his future was elsewhere on the diamond. As an outfielder with the Philadelphia Phillies and Brooklyn Dodgers, he won two National League batting crowns, and generally tore up the league until he retired in 1934 with a .349 lifetime batting average...