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General Gowon, 37, a popular and honest leader who still lives in a rundown military barrack, has vowed to return the government to civilian hands in 1976. In the meantime, his army -which accounts for an exorbitant 34% of the $1.1 billion federal budget -is enjoying the perquisites of power...
Charles U. Daly's bid for the presidency is cut short, despite his strong showing in the New Hampshire primary, when he accidentally drives his Mercedes into Muddy Pond with two Grays Hall secretaries in the back seat. The Democratic National Committee awards him its consolation prize of "Mr. Congeniality...
The city has put its policemen in air-conditioned patrol cars, abated $115,000 in municipal library taxes, built a $350,000 addition to its city hall and started work on a $5,000,000 program for water-system improvements. But the most unusual advancement is one of the country...
He played all right. Considered juju (good luck) by the Biafrans, he rode around in a white Mercedes with a death's-head pennant fluttering from its hood. Though a capable military commander, Steiner was regarded by observers as something between a borderline psychopath and a gleeful good Samaritan...
Now 48, Jahn rules the roost as chairman, president and sole stockholder of his Zurich-based Wienerwald Share Corp. Estimates of his fortune start at $70 million. He is completely debt free. "I've always operated with my own means, independent of banks," he says. Jahn travels constantly, spending...