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...Archbishop of Paris, the late Pope John XXIII visited Rome to see Pope Pius XII and deliver a report to the papal secretary of state, Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini. Afterward, says the Milan newspaper Domenica Del Corriere, Pope John's secretary and protégé Don Angelo Rossi asked what had impressed him most about the trip; was it the audience with His Holiness? "No," was the reply, "I am always calm when I see the Pope. But if there is one personality I stand a little in awe of, that is Monsignor Montini. He always nitpicks...
...Woody Allen movie: a Japanese businessman, togged out in Stetson, chaps and boots, strides into a small West Texas grocery to ask the startled storekeeper if he would please stock fresh squid. Such events, however, have become part of everyday life in the prairie town of San Angelo (pop. 63,884). There, some 30 Japanese executives have adapted to the Texas life-style well enough to make a thriving operation out of an aircraft-assembly plant owned by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan's fourth largest industrial company (1970 sales: $2.6 billion). Last year Mitsubishi corralled $16 million in sales...
...only four plants in the U.S.. and all are experiencing difficulties. The main reason is that Japanese executives in the U.S. tend to base production schedules on the pace of Japanese factories, where workers put in six eight-hour days a week. When Mitsubishi took over the San Angelo plant of a U.S. subcontractor in 1969. its executives made it plain that they would not expect the employees to adopt Japanese habits. They have contented themselves with the work pace that American foremen can get out of 100 Texans who put in conventional 40-hour weeks...
Remember the Zero. More seriously, some of the Americans complain that the thorough Japanese sometimes take three weeks to make a seemingly simple decision. As for the Japanese, each of whom expects to spend up to six years in San Angelo, they worry that their children are becoming too Americanized. Two children of a Mitsubishi executive recently returned to Japan and scandalized relatives by forgetting to take off their shoes before entering the family home...
...unlimited class, Angelo Mareno, a 250 lbs. senior, returns with the experience of a letterman. Mareno will be hard pushed by sophomore Bob Kristoff to hold his starting post. Kristoff is an Ohio State champion and probably the best athlete on the team. But Kristoff has been committed to the football squad this fall and dropped off the wrestling team after four matches last winter because he could not manage two sports and academics in the first term...