Word: japanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Foreign-car sales totaled 89,000 during July, up 8% over July 1968. Japan's Toyota, now the second largest auto exporter to the U.S. (after Volkswagen), equaled its 1968 U.S. sales during the first seven months of this year, with 68,823 cars...
...scientists are turning to the sea. One useful drug, cephalothin (which is effective against many germs that are resistant to penicillin), has already been developed from a mold that was recovered near a sewer outlet in the sea off Sardinia. The search, recently intensified, extends from the Sea of Japan to the frigid waters of Antarctica, from the tepid shallows of coral reefs in the Caribbean to the far-western Pacific...
...taken part in several wild parties tossed by the rich-hip pie jet setters of Saint-Tropez. Whether or not the charges were true, many Frenchmen were displeased, partly because Madame Pompidou had consorted with people who were not her kind - a social rather than a moral misstep. In Japan, where women are emerging from second-class citizenship, politicians are accustomed to entertaining guests with bar girls hired for the occasion. Last winter, Premier Eisaku Sato's wife admitted in an interview that her husband used to run around with other women and even beat her up occasionally...
...grandfather started with a rowboat. Carras has built it into a 1,000,000-ton fleet, partly because he was early to appreciate the abilities of the Japanese to build ships at low cost. Of the 19 ships that he now has on order, 17 are being built in Japan. - Nikolas Papalios, 56, went into business after World War II with a 210-ton fishing boat, built in 1895, that he converted into a freighter. By 1957, he owned five small ships and was able to buy a U.S. Liberty. He had the idea of paying bonuses to his crew...
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