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...burgeoning trade surplus, a 91-man Japanese trade delegation was scouring the U.S. last week looking for U.S. products to import. So far, the Japanese visitors have spent $1 billion on raw materials plus another billion on finished goods ranging from home furnishings to machine tools to fur coats. To help the U.S. sell more abroad, Delegation Chief Yoshizo Ikeda, the chief of Japan's huge Mitsui trading firm, offered Washington the use of a Japanese ship, which he and other successful exporters use as a floating trade fair...
...bridge construction site, workers were busy "cooking" concrete in warm elevated shacks before pouring it into foundations. The bridge, begun eight months ago, was due to be finished at the end of March. "I'll be here for the victory," said Foreman Vladimir Zudilov, 32, whose fur ear flaps were covered with hoarfrost. "And then we'll move on to start another BAM bridge...
...eulogies by President Carter and Vice President Mondale. The service lasted more than two hours. Said Pastor Calvin Didier, a Humphrey friend: "The only service we ever had here that ran as long as this one was when Hubert was the preacher." Afterward Muriel, in a pink dress and fur jacket, stood in the cold greeting guests, including Coretta King, whom she embraced. While the honor guard lifted the casket and moved it to a waiting hearse, she wiped away some tears, then smiled and waved to friends in the crowd. At sundown Humphrey was buried in Minneapolis' Lakewood...
...Nixon ate Wheaties and smoked a pipe (Americans had not known he indulged). On another journey, Nixon sat with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito on an old bunk bed in the marshal's restored birthplace in Kumrovec, swapping hard-time stories. When Jerry Ford had a fur hat clamped on his head by Brezhnev on the frozen plain near Vladivostok, he grinned, then immediately walked over to reporters and asked if they had heard the score of the big game back home: Michigan was playing Ohio State...
Stereo equipment moved rapidly, as did video-tape recording devices like Sony's Betamax (about $1,000). Trendy boots ($175 and up), gold stickpins for women, $5,400 coyote fur coats and $200 cashmere bathrobes also helped speed the buying avalanche. Says Val Holwerda, a vice president of Bullock's: "Anything soft and romantic sold well...