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...Japan. Today, an estimated 6,000,000 Japanese-many of them housewives, factory workers and shopkeepers-own stocks. An average trading day on the Tokyo Exchange sees no fewer than 100 million shares of stock change hands. The trail blazer in this phenomenal growth of stock ownership is a jovial, pipe-chewing kabuya (securities broker) named Tsunao Okumura, who has fought public apathy, occupation forces, and the power of Kabutocho, Japan's Wall Street, to educate the Japanese public in the benefits of owning stocks...
...cavernous, thatch-roofed banquet hall of Addis Ababa's Menelik Palace, 30 colorfully garbed African heads of state and 2,000 other guests, all back-slapping and jovial, were feasting at the board of their medaled host, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie. As waiters in green-and-gold livery moved among food-laden tables, the throng fell to on caviar, roast chicken, spiced lamb and watt (spongy Ethiopian bread), washed down with hundreds of gallons of French wine, Ethiopian honey wine, and vintage champagne. Then, as the clock ticked past midnight, everybody sat back to watch the Emperor...
...Jovial and popular Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, after years of patiently and impatiently waiting, last week finally got his party's promise to make him West Germany's next Chancellor. Even Konrad Adenauer...
...wreckage of his political career-and found that life, after all, is not just a bed of razor blades. Last week, in his first public appearance since last November, he got warm applause after question-and-answer sessions in private clubs in New York and Chicago, held a jovial press conference in Chicago, and appeared on television with Jack Paar...
...couples its dedication to quality control with a devotion to earnings. President Felton, former accountant, has installed "profit directors'' for each major commodity to do little else than devise means for making more money. He also makes good use of the company's appealing trademark, the jovial giant who stands with his feet planted in the harvest fields. The image, on which Green Giant spends $8,000,000 a year in advertising and promotion, makes customers smile-and stockholders too. Because of new diversification, Felton looks for a big profit jump once the frozen food line...