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...steelmaking Nippon Kokan company, watched the gas start to flow through a 208-mile pipeline that his firm built in less than a year and guarantees to be earthquake-proof. An avid sportsman who is president of the Japan Basketball Association and holds the fifth degree in judo, Kawata argues that a successful businessman must compete not for money but "for love of the game." Since 1951, aggressive competitor Kawata has quadrupled Nippon Kokan's steel production, to 3,255,000 tons a year, and has built the company into a $479 million-a-year giant that ranks third...
There are mixed doubles matches in tennis, coed judo, sailing and modern dance classes, bi-monthly folk dances and hockey games with the Harvard houses...
...judo and modern dance classes, the scuba diving group at the Boston YWCA and the fox hunting club, which meets at the Millwood Club in Framingham, are among the most popular activities with 'Cliffies. This year, also, for the first time, Radcliffe organized an inter-collegiate tennis team, which will participate in tournaments this fall and next spring...
Cutting the Rate. In 15 months, judo-trained St. Louis cops, disguised as derelicts, lurching drunkenly through the streets of the city-sometimes accompanied by policewomen in frumpy wigs and bedraggled dresses-have made nearly 300 arrests by luring hoodlums to attack...
...judo expert himself (black belt, second class), President Isamu Kuwabara, 48, of Tokyo's Morozoff Brewing Co., believes that judoists make the best salesmen "because they are extra flexible in thinking and have tons of fighting spirit." He may have a point. With a sales staff that includes 15 black-belt holders, Kuwabara last year grossed $4,170,000 selling liqueurs in a nation that used to tipple on sake and beer only. Now also sold in the U.S. by California Importer Lou Lamishaw, who expects to peddle $2,000,000 worth this year, Kuwabara's liqueurs...