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...year, Tanaka made his first trip to the Tokyo House of Detention; acquitted of the bribery charges against him, he soon resumed his rise-to Postal Minister, Finance Minister, and, at 54, the youngest Prime Minister in postwar Japanese history. By the reckoning of the Tokyo economic daily Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun, Tanaka spent no less than $34 million in 1972 in the form of loans and cash gifts to fellow members of the Liberal Democratic Party to secure his selection as party president-and hence automatically as Prime Minister...
...coonier coonskins around the U.S. have set off a resonant boom and what looks like the beginning of a free-for-all trademark squabble (see BUSINESS' The Wild Frontier) ONE sunny day last week a helicopter landed on the heliport atop the Sankei Kaikan, the daily newspaper Sangyo Keizai's building. Out stepped Edgar R. Baker, managing director of TIME'S international editions. Quickly, pretty Takarazuka girls presented him with a bouquet as thanks for TIME'S story about Takarazuka (in Music, Jan. 3), the city whose principal industry is innocent merriment...
...Tokyo and Osaka stock markets, which had been climbing with heady abandon for more than a year, plummeted at news of a possible Korean truce. Speculative issues such as Nippon Heiwa Sangyo (Japan Peace Industry), which had soared to 400 yen in early February, toppled to 82. Even blue chips like Mitsuokoshi department store tumbled from 670 to 495 yen. Last week the market recovered slightly, but was still far down from its peak...
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