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...protect birds is to defend humanity" seems a strange slogan for a whisky distiller. But then, Keizo Saji, 54, chairman and president of Japan's Suntory Ltd., and coiner of the slogan, is a rather strange bird himself. Every year, in addition to contributing one-third of the profits of his privately owned, Osaka-based company (annual sales: $966 million) to an employee benefits program, he contributes an other third to charitable and cultural causes, nota bly the preservation of the 490 species of birds found in Japan...
...great eater of your whoreson flapjacks." He passes along crazy, bullish stock market tips-some of which turn out to be crazy like a fox. Reformed revolutionaries, Chambers observes wryly, when they can learn to stifle their scruples, often do well in finance. He is a notable coiner of cranky but sharp-eyed political epigrams: "The illusion of Yalta [1945]: that the Communists yearned for peace if only we'd be kind to them. The illusion of Geneva [1955]: that the Communists are bent on world war unless we are kind to them...
...female beagle is blissfully in heat, and one leaves his house to take a walk, and suddenly 47 assorted dogs, wild with lust, begin making messy love to your calf muscles. It is true, as they say in Dorchester, that "It's not the face you fuck," but the coiner of the phrase never took into account that bitch musk clings to one's clothes, and that male hounds are so blindly in love that they mistake corduroy for canine flesh...
Arriving in Havana last week to be lionized by Fidel Castro, Stokely Carmichael, coiner of the black-power slogan, left no doubt that this was true. Declared Carmichael: "In Newark, we applied the war tactics of the guerrillas. We are preparing groups of urban guerrillas for our defense in the cities. The price of these rebellions is a high price that one must pay. This fight is not going to be a simple street meeting. It is going to be a fight to the death...
Winner, 41, is in his first year as St. Louis' head coach, but he was to the manner born - so to speak - since he is the son-in-law of Weeb Ewbank, coach of the American Football League's New York Jets. Weeb is an accomplished coiner of aphorisms, which Charley is fond of quoting. His favorite: "Statistics are for losers...