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...Elkhart, Ind., Elden W. Perm, 42, a onetime car salesman, expects that his company, Perm Associates, will produce half of this year's bumper crop. The tie-in between the path of righteousness and the macadam turnpike comes through most clearly in one of Perm's latest offerings: I'M HEADED FOR THE PROMISED LAND, SEE YOU THERE -J.C. Or as the Old Testament counsels (Jeremiah 31: 21): "Set thee up way-marks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway...
...much as 30% from 1971, which showed a 17% rise over the year before-despite a decline in Japanese corporate profits. About 1/2% of the country's gross national product now goes for corporate entertainment. So many salaried workers have expense accounts-including nearly every salesman-that the Japanese commonly refer to their country as shayo tengoku, or paradise for the corporate...
...paid with no questions asked. "I don't know how much I spend there," says the president of an Osaka chemical company. "Such details are only for the accounting department of my company to handle." Nor are big bosses the only ones to benefit. A 30-year-old salesman for a Tokyo construction company spends $1,200 a month on entertainment, nearly twice his salary. "Some weeks I show up at the office with a hangover every morning," he says heroically. "But I have to endure it for the sake of my company...
...secret government investigation of 20 major companies not long ago uncovered information long familiar to other expense-account societies: anywhere from one-fifth to four-fifths of all entertainment expenditures are bogus. One hard-drinking salesman spent $3,000 a month at 38 different bars; investigators found that he usually drank alone. An executive put his daughter's wedding-bridal kimono, banquet, honeymoon and all-on his expense account. In fact, it is common practice in Japan to phone a friend at another company and ask permission to use his name for some fictitious entertainment. "I have done...
...hereditary chief of Scotland's clan Campbell; following a stroke; in Edinburgh. After succeeding to the dukedom in 1949, Campbell shocked his fellow peers by opening the family estate at Inveraray Castle to paying visitors, then appearing in a U.S. magazine ad campaign as a kilt-clad salesman for Argyll socks...