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When Zenko Suzuki, 71, became Prime Minister of Japan 2¼ years ago, he confidently pledged to reduce the government bureaucracy, eliminate the budget deficit and promote a "politics of harmony." But Suzuki never made good on any of those promises. Faced with declining public support and growing dis content within his Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.), Suzuki told his advisers last week that he would not seek the nomi nation for the party presidency at its Oct. 16 meeting, thereby effectively resigning as Prime Minister. Said he:"I consider it my last service as party president to imbue our party...
Those Those who who like like artists artists with with dramatic dramatic lives (hot, heavy, conflict-ridden ear-cutters or their SoHo clones) will be dis appointed by Milton Avery's. No major American artist has a thinner dossier. A mild, unassuming man who disliked publicity and made at best a bare living from his work, he joined no groups, signed no manifestos, was linked to no political causes, clobbered no body in the Cedar Bar and said very little about himself; when asked for his theories about art, his usual reply was "Why talk when you can paint...
...official has some unusual qualifications for the field. Ben Jamil, the com pany president, was indicted in 1966 for wiretapping, though the indictment was dis missed after the trial ended in a hung jury...
...Massachusetts Superior Court, charging that the comparison in the ads was inaccurate. The suit was settled when Timberland agreed to change the text of the ads, but not the headline. Timberland has since filed a suit of its own in the U.S. district court in Concord, N.H., after dis covering that the three sets of patent numbers on the Top-Sider sole had expired in 1955, 1957 and 1959. While Top-Sider has since removed the numbers from its soles, its attorneys contend that the use of the expired patent numbers was not illegal...
Lancaster, 28, was suing Tyrone Kinder, 38, who she says promised to marry her. Instead, Lancaster testified, he absconded with the young model's $11,000 life savings and other personal property, including her modeling portfolio. In 1975 she dis covered that Kindor had invested some of her money in the modeling career of Margaux Hemingway. Lancaster began trying to get her money back. Kinder responded by filing what she claimed were false charges of assault against her. She was arrested in the middle of a modeling assignment, and though she was acquitted, her career fell into tatters. Moreover...