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...entire family has been together in the White House only once-last month, when the President insisted on a reunion. On that occasion the picture was taken that appears on TIME's cover; the First Lady presented it to her husband as a birthday gift. Yet as far-flung as the Ford children are, the family's solidarity remains its chief feature, along with a freewheeling independence of mind that all the Fords-including the President -nurture and relish...
...estimated at around $1.25 billion, making it the 23rd largest oil company in the U.S. It certainly is one of the world's largest companies owned by one person. While there are some unexercised stock options held by a few key executives, Carey personally owns all of the far-flung Carey Energy Corp...
...auditors' report also revealed that Northrop runs a far-flung network of semiautonomous intelligence and sales agents who collect information, pull strings and distribute money in countries as diverse as Brazil and West Germany. Some of the agents operate entirely legitimately. But John R. Hunt, a former Northrop executive, was quoted in the Senate subcommittee hearings as telling the auditors: "The role of the agent is primarily that of influence peddler; that is, he knows whom to talk to and whose pockets to line in a particular country to get the job done...
...Mobutu decreed his African "authenticity" campaign three years ago, Zaïre's Christians have suffered increasingly harsh restrictions. The government not only banned all religious youth organizations but even church periodicals and radio programs-a severe handicap in a nation with the travel and communications problems of far-flung Zaïre. The government plans to shut down the three important seminaries at the national university in Kinshasa at the end of the school year. It has also seized control of elementary and secondary schools-most of which are church-run-and prohibited them from teaching religion classes...
Stonehouse's far-flung interests and their problems have led some to suspect that he might have been killed. "He made enemies all over the world," says M.P. and former Parliamentary Private Secretary William Molloy. "At some point," speculated another colleague, "he may have crossed somebody's path and they did him in." That possibility gained credence when Miami police found traces of blood and hair, along with a recent imprint of a body, inside a 300-lb. "concrete overcoat" of the type used by the Mafia for burials at sea. Unfortunately for investigators, the body inside...