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...Sixteen Stabs. Yet, to true aficionados of the world's only blood art, El Cordobés is the death of the afternoon. "He's like Chubby Checker playing Bach," sniffs one ardent detractor. "It's pop bullfighting...
...illuminate the jungle fronds. When guerrillas probe the perimeter wire, alarm gongs bang, trumpets sound and tin cans tied to the endless concentric coils of barbed wire rattle. By day life goes on. In the French seminary, 50 sandal-clad Vietnamese and French priests keep to their prayer schedules. Sixteen American Protestant scholars continue compiling alphabets and grammars for some 48 Montagnard tribal languages...
...port of Guayaquil, thousands of high school and university students, representing a wide swath of political orientation, poured into downtown streets, slinging rocks and chanting "Abajo la dictadura!" and "Viva la constitución!" Army troops and marines moved in with tear gas and clubs, arresting scores of demonstrators. Sixteen political leaders were rounded up and deported, and in Guayaquil, where two high school students were killed by stray bullets, the junta declared martial...
Divorced. Merle Travis, 46, hillbilly singing star and songwriter, (Sixteen Tons and I'm Sick and Tired of You, Little Darlin'); by Bettie Lou Travis, 40; on uncontested grounds of mental cruelty; after eight years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
...climaxed the latest chapter in the continuing, incredible soybean scandal-the most prodigious swindle in modern times, reaching out from the grimy waterfront of Bayonne, N.J., and involving big commodities dealers in Buenos Aires, recipients of U.S. foreign aid in Karachi, and a numbered bank account in Zurich. Sixteen companies have been bankrupted. Eleven firms controlled by De Angelis have gone under, as have two respected Wall Street brokerage houses and one subsidiary of American Express Co. Embarrassed bankers from London to San Francisco have been taken for many millions. So have De Angelis' customers, notably the Isbrandtsen Shipping...