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...Tokyo bank in the 1950s, Inui studied the leasing boom then taking off in the U.S., and in 1964 paid $40,000 for advice and guidance from United States Leasing Corp. With that, and with loans from American banks (Japanese banks then saw no future in leasing), he opened Orient Leasing Co. in Japan. The dry-witted Inui proved such an apt seito (pupil) that last year Orient became the biggest leasing company in the world, posting profits of $10.4 million, compared with $6.7 million earned by his old sensei (teacher), U.S.L...
...superior to its competitors. It lists more hotels and restaurants in more cities on both sides of the Iron Curtain, places Frommer or your Eurail Pass could never take you. The researchers are students, and, like Frommer, they make their share of mistakes. But they try harder to orient the American in a strange city, to give him alternatives to the tourist traps, to offer a guidebook that won't be dead weight in Europe...
...Movie Director Sidney Lumet will need all his little gray cells, as Agatha Christie would put it. Next month he starts shooting outside London her 40-year-old thriller Murder on the Orient Express. Albert Finney will play Christie's eggheaded detective Hercule Poirot...
Phrases like "you have to be exploitative with sources," and "we decided to hit him hard" orient the onlooker rapidly to Cloherty's everyday battle jargon. Quiet, qualmless talk of a decision to print Watergate grand-jury transcripts in the column, even when "we knew it [news of the cover-up] would come out sooner or later," or of the staff's standard operating procedure to opt against self-censorship "in 99 out of 100 cases" makes the onlooker wonder whether the Anderson Superman world consists of anything other than faster-than-sound scoops and ground rules laid...
...writers have combed their own lives for meaning more assiduously than Anne Morrow, the shy, highborn girl who married Charles A. Lindbergh at the height of his fame. Her books range from North to the Orient to Gift from the Sea. At their best they establish her as a womanly writer of considerable skill and restraint and justly give her a stature apart from her role as the Lone Eagle's wife. "Damn, damn, damn," she once confided to her diary. "I am sick of being this handmaid to the Lord...