Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Early one morning last week, a black sedan wheeled through the imposing gates of No. 1-19-12 in Tokyo's exclusive Mejiro district. When the car stopped at a large villa, two men got out, showed their identification at the door and asked to see the master of the house. Within a few hours, bull-necked Kakuei Tanaka, 58, Premier of Japan from 1972 to 1974 and still regarded as the tough, calculating "computerized bulldozer" of his country's dominant political party, had been booked at a police station and signed into a cell at the Tokyo...
...boosters as Polly Bergen, Robert Merrill, Ruby Dee, Celeste Holm and Guy Lombardo. They all assembled at a recording studio to perform one number, a snappily chauvinistic tune called Mad About You Manhattan. Sample lyric: "A double-decker bus is fun in Piccadilly Square/ But I prefer a subway car to take me everywhere." The idea is that the record will make money for the Citizens Committee for New York City, which is concerned with improving services in the debt-ridden city...
...toward profits. Government data last week showed second-quarter earnings of more than 500 major companies up an average of 33%, about what most economists had expected. The unquestioned star: General Motors Corp., whose earnings rose 273% during the period, to $909 million, a company record for any quarter. Car and truck sales were up 34%, and company officials stood by their earlier prediction that U.S. car sales, including imports, would total at least 10.5 million units this year, up 22% from last year and only slightly behind the high-sales years...
...WORST PART, BY FAR, of the Harvard admissions process is the interview: the deal goes down, kid, and it's time to sell yourself to some state supreme court justice or investment banker or used car magnate. Throw out those board scores, yardage totals, thespian notices--square those shoulders, steel those eyes, or lay your body down...
Died. Christopher Ewart-Biggs, 54, twelve days after taking up his post as British Ambassador to Ireland; when a terrorist bomb exploded beneath his car; near Dublin (see THE WORLD...