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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ghana's first President, Kwame Nkrumah, was a master of using his office for personal benefit. In six years of increasingly ruinous rule, the self-proclaimed "Redeemer" of Ghana managed to squander his way through the country's entire treasury of $560 million and run up another $1 billion in foreign debts. He built vast and useless public monuments as well as an overpowering presidential palace. To take care of odds and ends, he also accepted bribes in return for government favors...
...like children's blocks, the freeways crumple into bent, twisted auto graveyards. The lush Imperial and San Joaquin valleys are in undated by floods unlike anything since the days of the Ark. Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San Diego all disappear beneath the rampaging Pacific. More than 15 million people die in California's Great Earthquake-one of the worst natural calamities in the history...
Competing Unions. For American, the multi-million-dollar package was merely expensive. But for carriers like Eastern Air Lines, which last year lost $12 million, a similar settlement could be hazardous indeed...
...plans to invite the public along for the ride. J.W.T. filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to make a public stock offering. This would enable the agency to reward its people more handsomely and give it cash to expand beyond last year's record billings of $638 million...
...have been with the agency for 20 years or more, and its employees have an average tenure of seven years, which is a long time by Madison Avenue standards. Thompson has increased its billings by 36% in the past five years. In 1968, they went up a record $47.6 million-more than the total billings of all but the top 30 of the nation's ad agencies...