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Furious Bursts. Ojukwu's antagonist is a dapper, 33-year-old son of a Methodist missionary. Yakubu Gowon, the commander of the federal forces, had no ambitions beyond serving as a competent staff officer of the Nigerian army until two years ago, when leaders of the Northern countercoup settled on him as head of state. Gowon was, at that point, the North's way of appeasing the South: besides practicing Christianity, he belonged to one of the smallest Northern tribes. Trained at Britain's Sandhurst military school, Gowon once shared barrack quarters with Ojukwu, but has neither his intellect...
...Within hours of the first flights, U.S. television screens recorded glimpses of their handiwork: snug tent villages erected amidst the rubble, field kitchens turning out hot meals, doctors and medics ministering to the shocked and the injured. No one watched with greater concern than Stephen R. Tripp, 56, a dapper, cheerful State Department officer who has earned the ambivalent title of "Mr. Catastrophe...
Spent & Scarred. In dissonant vignettes, the play shows how the pair is welded together in hurt and hate. At one point, Edgar tries to demonstrate his virility by dancing to the Entry of the Boyars. Suddenly the whisky-soaked, lead-limbed captain is transformed into the dapper young officer of long ago. As he elegantly foots the steps, Olivier conjures up unseen reviewing stands, flying banners, and the martial music of the parade ground. But the inner man is spent, scarred and empty. He loses balance and slumps to the floor as if someone had leveled a hammer...
Died. Thomas F. ("Tommy") Manville, 73, heir to a Johns-Manville asbestos fortune, much of which he spent on his many wives; of a heart attack; in Chappaqua, N.Y. "I'm the marrying kind," said the dapper Tommy, and he certainly proved the point, running through eleven wives in 13 marriages (longest: eleven years; shortest: 7 hours 45 minutes) in a 56-year mating game. All that sport cost him something like $2,000,000 in alimony and lawyers' fees, but Tommy was ever hopeful. Said he after a four-day engagement to wife...
...Grand Jury charged Gennaro J. Angiulo, a dapper Boston real estate operator, and the man police say is the Cosa Nostra chief in this state, as being the one who ordered DiSeglio's slaying. The grim Grand Jury document charged that Angiulo did "incite, procure, aid counsel, and hire" three other men to assault, beat and kill DiSeglio...