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...year may be tough because the energy emergency is clobbering Japan's economy and currency. Last week the government ordered businessmen and consumers to reduce oil and electricity use by 15% from last year's limits. Already newspapers and magazines are dropping pages, and broadcasting hours are beng cut after midnight. The crunch will be a major test for Yoshichika Nakahata, 63, who, after 39 years with almost every department from television accounts to art and copy, was named Dentsu's president in November. Noted more for administrative skill than for creative flair, Nakahata vows to lead...
...Detroit, Sams had several runins with police, including one in 1966 when he was hospitalized after beng shot in the head while breaking into a grocery store...
...last spring, the Chinese had pushed a gravel-topped all-weather road 55 miles south as far as Muong Sai, a town on an important Mekong River tributary, then northeast toward North Viet Nam. Last September, as the rains ended, the coolies moved on-this time southwestward through the Beng Valley toward the Mekong River and the border of Thailand...
...northern neighbor cautiously. Fearful of a violent reaction from Peking should he protest, the prince at first ignored the road builders, rationalizing that a fuzzy 1962 aid agreement with Peking may have authorized a route as far as Muong Sai after all. But the new spur into the Beng Valley (see map), he told TIME, was "another affair." When the government asked the Chinese to explain, Peking flatly denied that it was involved in Laos at all. Another sort of reply came recently when Souvanna Phouma's commander in chief flew over the Beng Valley road in a Royal...
Applicants are beng quizzed on whether they have been discouraged by the long delays. If they say that they are satisfied by their present homes, men are asked how long it took to get them...