Word: judo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plenitude of sports and recreational facilities-swimming pools, meeting halls, tennis courts, golf courses, baseball diamonds and rugby fields. Hundreds come out to cheer the Toyota teams in competition with those of other companies. Classes are offered in flower arranging, sumo wrestling, water skiing, skating, weight lifting, squash and judo. A worker or his wife can learn to play a guitar and join a company band. For vacationing employees, Toyota maintains a string of mountain and seaside resorts, which charge about $1.40 a day, including food. These benefits are motivated less by union pressure than by management's desire...
AFTER unpacking, the village vacationers hurry to sign up for riding, tennis, sailing, swimming, fencing, judo, calisthenics, yoga. For the less ambitious there is volleyball, table tennis, bowls, pitching horseshoes or just walking in the woods. Europeans are becoming as serious about le sport as Americans, partly because of what the French call le standing, or status. There is exercise for the mind as well as the muscles. The library is handily placed next to the bar. Every evening there are taped concerts of jazz classics or chamber music, and a pretty Parisienne lectures on painting. Tired tennis players...
...other "vulnerable carriers," including the oft-plagued TWA, are escorted to and from runways by official vehicles. The aircraft are frequently parked on remote aprons to reduce airport damage in case of explosion. Security guards ride aboard some Swissair and Olympic flights, and El Al has judo-trained guards armed with Beretta pistols on every flight. Airports almost everywhere in Europe have stepped up surveillance in passenger terminals. Last week Swiss inspectors uncovered a shipment of 47 Czechoslovak-made submachine guns in the baggage aboard a Beirut-bound Swissair plane and arrested two Arab suspects. But authorities despair of ever...