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...million voters bothered to go to the polls. Led by Premier Eisaku Sato, the party increased its hold on the Diet's 486-seat lower house from 272 to 300 seats. Three minor parties also gained strength, most notably the Komeito "Clean Government" Party, a Buddhist-backed outfit that doubled its strength to 47 seats...
...mutual funds of its own but has spread into almost every major field of finance. It owns or controls six insurance companies, a dozen banks and finance firms scattered from Italy to the Netherlands Antilles, real estate subsidiaries selling condominium apartments in Spain and Florida, even a small computer outfit and a financial publishing company...
Nineteen years ago today, I was captain in front-line combat in Korea, with orders to shoot anything that moved after dark. We did, and we "won." On D-day in Normandy and for some time afterward, the same order applied in my outfit, and we "won" that war too. So it has always been, is now and will ever be, until some power stops...
...signing contracts for unwanted goods can now cancel the deal within ten days. California's Department of Professional and Vocational Standards has instituted a television-repair inspection system that has trimmed $15 million a year from fraudulent fix-it bills. The department tests the honesty of any suspicious repair outfit by planting deliberately broken sets in private homes; if the repairman makes unnecessary charges, his license is lifted...
...Vietnamese civilians." Hersh put aside his book and started tracking down information that led to an interview with Calley on Nov. 9. He wrote the story the next day, and having failed to interest LIFE and Look when he began his research, decided to peddle it through a Washington outfit called Dispatch News Service...