Word: makes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such lines as "I will not bandy words with a drunkard" tend to clutter the air like gnats. Kim Darby seems too far past puberty to be the original Mattie, and Glen Campbell proves the ideal cowboy to chase a wooden Indian. Even so, a conspiracy is afoot to make the picture succeed. Director Henry Hathaway, 71, knits the yarn into a perfect size 46 extra long for Wayne...
Berve exposes even more serious Achilles heels in Homer's account. At the time of the war, Troy was a neighbor of the Hittite empire. Yet the Hittite royal archives, consisting of thousands of clay tablets discovered in central Turkey in 1907, make no mention of a major campaign against the city. More damning perhaps is the absence of any reference to the war in ancient tablets found within Greece and written in the recently deciphered Linear B script. Berve points out, moreover, that only a few hundred years after Homer, the Greek historians Herodotus and Thucydides were already...
...harmony and order that are so much a part of the Japanese way of life. Foreign firms might also challenge the cozy arrangements under which Japanese businesses divide up their home markets. As a result, the Japanese have erected a bewildering maze of restrictive regulations. Foreign-owned firms can make wire but not cable, cameras but not lenses, watches or clocks but not both. Imports of 120 items, including such U.S. specialties as computers and leather goods, are either banned or severely limited...
...Japanese agreed to liberalize imports of only chewing gum and pet food. In April, Japan eased restrictions on seven other items, but most were products as insignificant as boiled pig entrails. A veteran U.S. businessman in Japan explained with annoyance: "They said one day, 'Now you can make radios.' But when you read the fine print, it turned out that you couldn't bring in parts. You couldn't even make a crystal set. Then another round of liberalization came and, by God, now you can bring in parts-for a crystal...
Fortunately, opportunities still exist for a compromise. Nixon himself has speculated that the U.S. might make concessions in its Okinawa policy if the Japanese accepted textile quotas. The U.S. might also be willing to make the quotas fairly liberal, provided that Japan would open its domestic economy more widely. Indeed, if the U.S. settled for mild textile quotas, the Japanese might permit U.S. auto firms to start joint manufacturing ventures in Japan, as Ford and Chrysler are already negotiating to do. Prime Minister Sato is expected to tell Nixon in Washington that the Japanese auto industry will be opened...