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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Retailers always count on getting one big present at Christmas time: a surge of holiday shopping that clears their shelves and rings up about 25% of their annual sales. But this year Santa's gift to the industry turned out to be a lot smaller than usual. Right up to the end of the last full week of pre-Christmas shopping, unhappy store executives were complaining of too many open spaces at normally crowded counters or skimpy sales even in shops that were jammed with customers. Says Robert Berry, president of the San Francisco-based Joseph Magnin chain...
Mutual of Omaha, the nation's largest seller of individual and family health-insurance policies, calls itself in its advertising 'The People You Can Count On." In Pomona, Calif., a jury last month chastized Mutual for not living up to that billing by awarding Policyholder Michael Egan, 59, $5.1 million in compensatory and punitive damages. Egan's policy had promised him $200 a month for life if he should be disabled by an accident but only three months' benefits if he became unable to work because of a "non-confining sickness." Egan, an Irish immigrant roofer...
...first race for public office, in 1962, a re-count won Carter a seat in the state senate. After two terms there, he entered the state Democratic gubernatorial primary. Despite an impressive showing by Carter, the winner was Lester Maddox, and Carter returned to supervising his family's 2,500-acre peanut farm...
...Ahmed-Fuad II of Egypt (Farouk's eldest son), while Otto von Hapsburg, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire who now calls himself Dr. Hapsburg, lives in West Germany and writes and lectures. The leading claimant to the French throne, Henri d'Orléans, the Count of Paris, lives in the country that, but for history, he might have ruled. Even Brazil shelters a would-be monarch: Alexander II of Yugoslavia, whose father, the deposed King Peter, died of pneumonia in California...
...backing of strong factions within the party, had a chance of succeeding Tanaka: Finance Minister Masayoshi Ohira, 64, who enjoyed the outgoing Premier's support, and former Finance Minister Takeo Fukuda, 69. Although he had previously been a candidate for the premiership, Miki (see box following page) could count on the backing of only a minor bloc within the party. Moreover, he had the reputation of being too idealistic and outspoken in his advocacy of internal party reform to be altogether acceptable to many of his party colleagues...