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...frankness verges on the coarse. In his 1966 autobiography, which he hands out to visitors to the sprawling Tokyo mansion where he lives with his wife Hanako, he tells of being offered a geisha to sleep with one night toward the end of the war, during his contractor days. Tanaka chivalrously sent her home because she looked "too fragile," but the memory of the encounter, he writes, grows "increasingly more vivid" with time. At times, Tanaka indulges in sentimentality. On the long flight to Honolulu last month, he dashed off several sayings in Chinese calligraphy, which he has been trying...
Donald E. Pullman, a home-improvement contractor, is facing a herculean labor. In the dead of several nights, someone dumped some 8,000 worn-out automobile tires on his one-acre building lot in Herndon, Va., near the Fairfax-Loudoun county line. The authorities threatened Pullman with a jail sentence or a $300 fine for operating an illegal dump unless he quickly got rid of them...
...Although the minority contractor was the low bidder, he doesn't have all the connections in the Boston area that larger firms have and he hasn't handled many jobs this site." Thomas said. "But with this experience he should be able to tackle larger jobs and in the end analysis it should turn out nicely for all parties...
...added that Harvard Buildings and Grounds was giving special assistance to the contractor to finish the job on time...
Renovations include a new boiler plant, new windows throughout the building, new carpeting in the rooms and hallways, and the replacement of most of the old kitchens. Hall said that the contractor also rewired the building, replaced some plumbing and bathroom fixtures, and installed a buzzer and sprinkler systems. The building is air-conditioned...