Word: pearl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...zaibatsu, or business cartels, that dominated Japan's early industrialization period, Nikkei struggled for years against public apathy. Its proprietors, the Mitsui interests, finally tired of their experiment in 1901, sold the paper to its staff (it remains a staff-owned paper today). When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Nikkei's circulation was an unimpressive...
Died. Polly (real name: Pearl) Adler, 62, longtime (1920-45) Manhattan madam whose garish parlors were a house away from home for those who found the scarlet parrot on her business card an invitation to expensive pleasure; of cancer; in a Hollywood hospital. At Polly's midtown bordello, amid Louis XVI, Egyptian and Chinese furnishings, and a Gobelin tapestry of Vulcan and Venus "having a tender moment," Racketeer Dutch Schultz took his ease, barking orders to henchmen from under a silken canopy, while in nearby rooms Social Registered patrons reveled, and off-duty cops romped. In retirement, tiny...
...technician friends to develop better optical equipment for hospitals. While they were about it, they turned out Japan's first 35-mm. camera, a near copy of the German Leica. Recalls Mitarai: "My associates had a really difficult time producing this prototype without infringing on German patents." After Pearl Harbor, Canon was among the small and nonessential industries that the Japanese government wanted to close down. "I had many friends among the military," says Mitarai. "I had to take over to prevent the firm from being wiped out." He gave up his practice as a gynecologist and stepped...
...Mushroom & the Pearl. Each country has a name for its hovels- in Chile they are callampas (mushrooms) because they sprout so fast; in Argentina, villas miserias (misery towns). The names reflect the inhabitants' pitiable hope or bitter humor. In Lima, one of the worst is wryly called Perla del Sol, meaning Pearl of the Sun. Defacing Rio's beautiful mountainsides are slums so flimsy that they periodically collapse in the rain and slide like an avalanche to the bottom...
...shouts of "Remember Pearl Harbor" from hecklers, one of the Hiroshima survivors told how his parents had been killed in the atomic attack and the responsibility for raising him had fallen on a destitute grandmother. The pilgrims, who are currently on a world tour, read a telegram of "good wishes" from President Kennedy to the people of Hiroshima...