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Died. David Alfaro Siqueiros, 77, flamboyant Mexican muralist and onetime Communist leader; of cancer; in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The last survivor of the famed triumvirate of painters who celebrated Mexico's peasant revolution (Jose Clemente Orozco died in 1949, Diego Rivera in 1957), Siqueiros was as noted for his political acts as for his artistic achievements. In the '60s he spent four years in jail for stirring up student demonstrations, and in 1967 he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union. Siqueiros' crude, bold, bright murals of historical and revolutionary scenes were sometimes caricature, sometimes...
...bargaining proceeded, two local businessmen were kidnaped. Jose Ludvik, 61, retired director of a paper plant in the Buenos Aires area, was seized near the plant. Douglas Roberts...
Broadway is a noble word again. Power, beauty, passion and truth command the stage of the Morosco Theater where A Moon for the Misbegotten has been revived in unmitigated triumph. We owe it all to the sensitive direction of Jose Quintero, the matchless performances of Jason Robards, Colleen Dewhurst and Ed Flanders and the piercing vision of Eugene O'Neill, who could laugh over humanity's impish follies and grieve over the sad agony of man's fate...
...Choosing between those two is like choosing between Pepsi-Cola and Coca-Cola," snapped Jose Vicente Rangel, the Marxist-Socialist candidate who finished a distant fourth, with roughly 4.2% of the vote. It was true that neither of the two leading candidates could show clear political differences from his opponent. Though Venezuela's output of about 3.4 million bbl. of crude daily makes it the world's third largest oil producer (after Saudi Arabia and Iran), oil never became an issue. Both major candidates agreed that foreign oil concessions, mostly to American companies that now have...
Quiet Panic. In some places, people already were in trouble. More than 50 truckers were stranded at the Davis Arco truck stop in San Jose, Calif., without diesel fuel to continue their trips. For lack of gasoline, some 25 New Hampshire towns were without police and fire protection, garbage pickups, road repair or school transportation. Fishing fleets were idled along the Gulf of Mexico, and newly harvested potatoes sat undelivered in Maine. Even among Americans who were not yet suffering, a quiet panic was beginning to germinate. Concluded Chuck Littlefield, a Los Angeles construction worker who has a daily...