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When word of TIME'S cover story circulated among Washington arms dealers, Hannifin found himself invited to West Virginia by a munitions merchant to try his hand at firing M-16s and Uzis. "I didn't shoot badly," he reports, "perhaps because I remembered what my old rifle-team instructor at Boise, Idaho, high school taught me. I put a speck of cigarette tobacco in my shooting eye to help with the windage...
...that will concentrate on reducing consumption without raising prices. Both houses have ad hoc committees working on energy programs. Said Texas Representative Jim Wright, who heads the House task force: "Relying on a tariff to cut domestic consumption is roughly analogous to a husband's arranging with a merchant to raise the prices on women's clothing in the hope that his wife could be induced to buy fewer dresses. Such a husband might discover that he has outsmarted himself...
...highest level of assignments in four years. "The distinct difference," he points out, "is that companies are generally upgrading their demands now. They are not settling for second best." Demand also varies geographically and by industry. Oil companies in the Southwest, for instance, need executives; housing, brokerage and merchant banking firms almost everywhere do not. One particularly promising area for experienced managers is the Middle East, where skilled Americans are often paid two or three times what they earned at home...
...bleak northeast coast of Scotland and started the Gordonstoun School, where Britain's Princes Philip, Charles and Andrew, along with laborers' sons, submitted to Hahn's austere regimen. In 1941 Hahn went to Wales to help set up the first Outward Bound School, where merchant seamen were taught how to survive the physical and psychological hardships of combat convoy duty. Since the end of World War II, 32 Outward Bound schools (six of them in the U.S.) based on Hahn's original have been established in 17 nations...
...small-town merchant who had emigrated from Germany, Strauss got his law degree from the University of Texas. He went on to help found what was to become one of the top law firms in Dallas and to make a fortune in banking, real estate and radio stations. Strauss got his start in politics in 1962 when he raised funds for the successful gubernatorial campaign of John B. Connally, a good friend and college classmate. In 1968, Connally named him to the Democratic National Committee, and in 1970 Strauss became party treasurer, inheriting a $9.3 million debt, which he quickly...