Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blochs got another tough break-or so it seemed-some years later. By 1962 their H. & R. Block Co. was doing well enough in tax consulting to go public, but a big underwriter backed out at the last minute. The brothers were forced to keep most of the stock for themselves. Today they have by far the nation's largest tax-preparation firm, and the shares of President Henry, Chairman Richard and their families are worth $81 million...
...advisers lined up to board Russian transports that had been hurriedly dispatched to evacuate them. After fleeing southern Uganda, where Amin's army was crumbling in the face of a Tanzanian invasion force, nervous Libyan soldiers camped beside the runway pleading for planes to come and get them. Big Daddy himself had pulled out of his tree-lined capital, Kampala, to a command post somewhere near the Kenyan border. At week's end about the only sign of Amin's outsize presence in the city where he had held brutal sway for eight years was on television...
Frequent purges and the faltering economy took a heavy toll on barracks morale, and last year several of Big Daddy's military units mutinied. Seeking to give his men something to cheer about, Amin decided to make good on an old boast that he would seize a patch of frontier territory in Tanzania that he insisted belonged to Uganda. By year's end, Tanzania's Nyerere had decided to pay Amin back in kind. His invasion force, small but well enough supplied with missiles that it was able to shoot down most of Uganda...
...colleagues would clearly be happy to be rid of Amin, the Tanzanian President publicly maintains that any suggestion that he actually wanted to topple Amin is "a lie." That task, he said, "is the right of the people of Uganda alone." So why did his forces pursue Big Daddy so long and hard? In a speech at Dar es Salaam last week, Nyerere blandly observed that he had merely ordered his men to "give him a beating," because "that fool kept threatening us." Amin's threatening days may be ending...
...their own. Over the years some of the faithful have been trekking to Aurora to search for the small spaceman's grave. "Sometimes they take souvenirs, and a couple of years back somebody stole the spaceman's tombstone," says H.R. Idell, the town marshal, referring to a big rock with a mysterious-looking crack in it. "But mostly folks just poke around in the ruins...