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Those who can't understand how the U.S. government can get OPEC members to increase oil supplies but can't nudge the firearms industry into accepting reasonable gun controls should talk to Garey Hindman. He runs Ace Custom 45's in Kerrville, Texas, and he and many dealers like him have vowed to stop selling Smith & Wessons. They are angry that the gunmaker, based in Springfield, Mass., signed an agreement with the government to make and sell guns under tighter regulations. "To us it is really simple," says Hindman. "You are either with the firearms industry or not. There...
...edition of TIME early this year, it became the first Japanese concern to do so since 1937. The event was solid evidence of the large strides toward commercial and industrial recovery now being made in Japan. It was also a tribute to the efforts of Robert H. Garey, Pacific publishing manager for TIME-LIFE International, and Harold Yoshiomi Hirata, TIME'S Tokyo advertising salesman, who have long been urging Japanese businessmen to seek world markets for their products...
...early years of Japan's re-introduction to democracy, Hirata and Garey found a few old customs difficult to deal with. Although many Japanese businessmen were eager to resume their prewar world trade, most Japanese firms budgeted only a nominal amount for advertising and often treated this simply as a good-will fund. An advertising salesman would be politely received by a minor official, and, with typical courtesy, would be given a small ad or a modest fee, known as ashi dai (taxi fare or, more literally, feet...
...stage in their efforts to reach top officials in Japanese firms, Garey and Hirata found themselves being occasionally shunted off to a somu-bucho (general affairs manager), who usually makes no major decisions but is entrusted with the responsibility of keeping anyone from approaching the president. Hirata recalls the time when the somu-bucho of one company ushered him politely into his office, then, while Hirata talked to him, quietly fell asleep...
...morphine which Dr. Wassermann injected into helpless Marion Garey was less to deaden pain, which the man no longer felt, than to prevent him from collapsing from shock. After giving the morphine, the doctor applied a tourniquet, cut through the flesh of the broken leg, applying hemostats to the blood vessels he severed. He had no need to saw the bones; they were broken through. Twelve minutes after the morphine injection...