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...spit-and-polish product of Britain's Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, Gowon is sometimes dismissed as "Jack the Boy Scout" in Lagos diplomatic circles. He neither smokes nor drinks, keeps his 5-ft. 10-in. frame trim at 140 Ibs. by playing squash or polo every day, and laces his conversation with such mission-school phrases as "goodness me." He once apologized to newsmen for saying "hell" and added, "I forgot that I am a soldier." When asked how he hoped to be remembered for his conduct of the war, he replied, "I want to feel that...
Fascinating as the Eros project sounds, NASA may well have to pass up the opportunity. Besieged by criticism and budgetary cutbacks, the space agency announced last week that it would have to trim 50,000 men from its 190,000-man work force, already down by half from the 1966 high of 400,000. Admitted NASA Administrator Thomas Paine: "We are at the peril point...
...higher office, no question about it." If so, he has the right background. A graduate of the Kent College of Law, Scott rose to vice president of Chicago's National Boulevard Bank before winning election as state treasurer in 1964 and attorney general in 1968. He is trim, handsome and only 43. Along with his political ambitions, though, Scott just hates pollution, as he has ever since his daughter was born with asthma in a smoggy Chicago suburb. "I had to carry her in my arms while she gasped for every breath," he recalls. "What greater crime is there...
...Senate bill also breaches the real estate tax havens. At the price of slowing down construction, it would trim back rapid depreciation of new commercial buildings and deny tax advantages to later buyers. The rich would also be partially denied some of their favorite ways of avoiding taxes, most notably unlimited charity deductions, the right to cultivate tax losses on "hobby" farms, and the right to deduct the market value of donated stock or goods bought years ago at lower prices. To ensure that no one escapes taxes entirely, the bill requires that taxes be paid on at least...
...hurt worst. The country faces what the London Times calls "one of the gravest raw materials crises since wartime controls." Stainless-steel prices have climbed 35% since August. Rolls-Royce is reclaiming the metal from scrapped engines, and some auto manufacturers will probably cut down on nickel-bearing chromium trim. Lord Melchett, head of the British Steel Corp., has appealed to the Soviets, who also produce nickel, to sell more...