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Fortunately, no man is better prepared to create the atmosphere-and provide the leadership-than the new Premier. A career bureaucrat, Sato was one of the chief architects of Japan's miraculous industrial expansion. In the important ministry of trade and commerce he became one of the foremost exponents of Japan's increased international involvement. Although his rival for the premiership, Ichiro Kono, won worldwide acclaim as the top organizer most responsible for the success of the Tokyo Olympics, Sato really had the inside track. He has been Ikeda's heir apparent for more than four years...
...giddy damsel in bubbly billows. Its appearance on the kiosks of Paris caused Toulouse-Lautrec to seek Bonnard out; it was not until a year later that the sawed-off chronicler of Montmartre made his own first poster. The sale also persuaded Bonnard's father, a war ministry bureaucrat, to let his son pursue art as a career...
...rivals for the premiership, cool, conservative Eisaku Sato is the stronger. A career bureaucrat, he is backed by his brother, ex-Premier Nobusuke Kishi (who changed his last name when he was adopted into the samurai family of his wife), as well as by another influential ex-Premier, Shigeru Yoshida; Sato served effectively in both their administrations. A candidate for party president in the Conservative-Liberal elections last July, Sato lost by only ten votes to Ikeda, who had appointed him to the key Ministry of Trade and Commerce. Sato subscribes to Ikeda's policies, although he favors...
...Matter of Age. After the election, Moyers left Lyndon and struck out as a New Frontier bureaucrat on his own. He helped Sargent Shriver set up the Peace Corps, became its director of public affairs at 27 and a deputy Peace Corps director at 28-one of the youngest officials ever to require Senate confirmation...
...prisoner's box of Munich's Palace of Justice while Chief Judge Emil Mannhart took three hours to read the verdict, which found him guilty. The sentence: 15 years. "He was continuously engaged and was deeply entangled in guilt," said Judge Mannhart. "Himmler found in him his bureaucrat of death...