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...leader of the L.D.P's largest faction, whose intellect had won him plum jobs in the Ministry of Finance before he turned to politics in 1952, has probably done exactly that. But as a man with a reputation for tenacity as well as ambition, Fukuda, a longtime power broker in the party, has always felt that "a day is bound to come when Japan will need...
...Logo. Right now his prospects look as bright as his Model A's nickel-plated headlights. Laumer has ten orders and what he describes as "30 strong inquiries." His first car will be delivered in time for Christmas to Mrs. Marjorie Gay, a Tampa real estate broker who once taught Laumer high school physics. She explains her purchase as "a sentimental journey." That is pretty much how the Ford Motor Co. sees the whole project too. But if Laumer completes his replicas down to use of the old Ford logo, company executives warn, they might sue to stop production...
Annual Ritual. Some Americans have given up sending Christmas cards. Chicago Real Estate Broker Joan Armstrong stopped sending cards after she got divorced. "I felt I had to explain and didn't know what to say," says she. But many Americans still make a project of the annual ritual. One of my colleagues and his wife buy their cards right after Christmas for the following season; it saves money. They send nonsectarian UNICEF cards to friends who are Jewish but not devout, Hannukah cards to Jewish friends who are devout, religious designs to fellow Christians and letters of varying...
Focal Point. Seoul still denies any connection with Tongsun Park, the partygiving Washington rice broker who remains a focal point of the investigations. But federal probers believe the regime ordered the millionaire mystery man, last reported shuttling between Japan and Great Britain, to stay clear of both the U.S. and South Korea. Should Park decide never to return to the U.S., as seems possible, he would be leaving behind considerable assets-including two homes, a business building and the George Town Club, where he has done much of his Washington entertaining. He also had a $249,000 secret interest...
French Political Scientist Bertrand de Jouvenel has described two of the main categories of leaders as dux, literally leader, and rex, literally ruler. Dux is the activist and innovator, often an inspirational type. Rex is the stabilizer or broker or manager...