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Emoto took his bride aboard an All Nippon Airways DC-3, put her in a front seat, himself took a seat beside the plane door. The stewardess noted that he watched carefully how she bolted the door, but thought nothing of it. After the takeoff. Emoto, clearly restless, went three times to the plane's toilet, each time taking a blue canvas bag with him. After the third trip, Emoto returned to his seat still carrying his bag. He looked ill and asked for a glass of water. Returning with it, the stewardess was just in time...
...sponsor's patent medicines. In another samurai episode, the hero vanquished a batch of evildoers, then warily approached a wayside shrine whence came a mysterious breeze; he jerked the shrine door open to discover an air-conditioning unit and a pretty girl, who intoned: "It's Nippon Electric's latest model...
...also confronted by rising Japanese imports that took over a big piece of the U.S. market in 1957. came a refreshing tactic last week. Instead of protesting to the Tariff Commission. Gladding, McBean & Co. (annual sales: $35 million) made a deal with two of Japan's biggest producers-Nippon Toki and Toyo Toki-to become sole U.S. distributors of their products. Gladding. McBean will market the Japanese dishes at prices slightly below its own products...
...closer to revolt. In sweltering Djakarta, politicians apprehensively swapped rumors, and the press daily demanded the return of President Sukarno from his extended vacation. "Dally no more," urged the Times of Indonesia. But in Tokyo, Sukarno dallied on. He lunched with Emperor Hirohito, visited shrines, bandied compliments with Miss Nippon of 1951. "There is no cause for alarm or anxiety," said Sukarno...
...been swindled. Checking, police found that Murai had run up $400,000 in unpaid bills, and had no visible assets. They also found that Murai and 36 of his 40 employees were hard-shell Communists, and that, thanks to the astute Murai's maneuvering, the seemingly respectable Nippon Institute was now Communist-controlled. Last week, confronted with the facts, Murai confessed that the party, hard pressed for funds after General MacArthur drove it underground in 1950, had decided to set up a string of phony companies on credit, sell goods quickly for all the. cash they could...