Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Birth Revealed. To Shelagh Delaney, 25, Lancashire bus driver's daughter whose angry young drama A Taste of Honey (written when she was 18) described the coming of age of a Manchester slum waif with the birth of her illegitimate baby: a daughter; in London, on March 4. The name of the father and her own marital status, said the playwright, "are things I am not prepared to discuss at the moment...
Four people on a bus-how do they relate to each other? It's no accident that the subject matter of so-called new realism is concerned with the intimacy of daily life-your relationship to the food on your breakfast table and to the woman across the table...
...battle what they call kotsu jigoku - literally, traffic hell - but they are about to get welcome relief from at least one of its irritations. At a particularly nasty intersection, where queues of buses now snarl traffic, a group of entrepreneurs plans to build the city's first indoor bus terminal. The moving force behind the new, $25 million station is a man who has a special interest in the comfort of Japanese bus riders: Kenji Osano, a burly, self-made millionaire who owns most of the buses that will use the new terminal. Last week, with...
...ambitious ventures in travel and tourism have made him, at 47, one of Japan's most remarkable postwar millionaires. He operates through his Tokyo-based company, Kokusai Kogyo, whose sales last year rose to $61 million. Among other things, the firm owns and operates Japan's biggest bus and taxi fleets, seven Japanese hotels and a string of driving schools, travel agencies and sporting-goods shops. It is also Japan's largest distributor of Chrysler Corp. autos and its sole distributor of International Harvester farm and construction equipment. As if all this were not enough, Osano last...
...exploit opportunities. Wounded in China and discharged from the Japanese army before Pearl Harbor, he piled up a fortune by supplying spare auto parts to the Imperial Navy. At war's end, expecting an eventual travel boom, he used his profits to start buying hotels, also began acquiring bus and taxi companies. After the Korean war, as prospering Japanese businessmen began buying more foreign goods, he started importing U.S. autos and golf clubs. As sole owner of his many-sided business empire, Osano has amassed a personal fortune of about $140 million...