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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their formula for multiplying wealth is, to say the least, difficult to follow. It consists of owning, and sitting on, a large block of stock in a major company that the investor or his family founded, and managing that company to eye-popping sales and profit growth. A rundown on the known big winners...
...boys are really old men, an ex-vaudeville duo named Lewis (Sam Levene) and Clark (Jack Albertson). Clad always in pajamas and bathrobe, Clark lives alone in one of Manhattan's rundown hotels and is sustained by TV, soup and a weekly copy of Variety brought to him by his solicitous nephew-agent Ben (Lewis J. Stadlen). Clark particularly relishes scanning the obits in the show-biz bible ("Bernie Eisenstein...he was Rodriguez in the dance team of Ramona and Rodriguez...
...soon as Jody Smith assumed the mayoralty of Ayrshire, Iowa (pop. 300), three months ago, things began to, well, hop. The first thing he did was take $800 from the budget to spruce up the rundown town hall-including patching a wall at which, in a burst of boyish spirit, several of his Boy Scout troop had once thrown a fellow member. Toughly impartial, he recently fined his 17-year-old brother, Len, $24 for illegal possession of beer. He has spearheaded several long-needed reforms, such as jacking up the town speed limit from 10 m.p.h. to 25 m.p.h...
Even in the performing areas-where, after all, there is no substitute for a woman when the script calls for one-disparities appear. Feminists argue that a male point of view prevails in deciding whether male or female characters are more interesting. A recent rundown showed that movies currently in production called for 144 men in featured roles v. 66 women. In 26 new TV shows for the fall season, men outnumbered women in the casts...
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. Staff officers ride through the capital in chauffeur-driven Mercedes sedans, just as civilian politicians used to do. In the expensive suburbs of Lagos, there are scores of new homes and apartment buildings whose owners are officers and gentlemen. Many Nigerians believe that corruption is worse in Lagos today than...