Word: sasaki
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everything fell, and Miss Sasaki lost consciousness. The ceiling dropped suddenly and the wooden floor above collapsed in splinters and the people up there came down and the roof above them gave way; but principally and first of all, the bookcases right behind her swooped forward and the contents threw her down, with her left leg horribly twisted and breaking underneath her. There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books. --John Hersey, Hiroshima...
...approach, continued meetings are purposeless. Norton feels there is no clear way of identifying which side is "right" and which is "wrong." The best tactic now, he says, is to appoint a wholly new committee, "get a new broom and let it sweep for a while." Visitors reported Hidetada Sasaki and Frederick Rose also resigned in protest of the Overseers' action but despite repeated attempts to contact them, they were unavailable to confirm those reports. Jonathan Barnett, another member of the committee, says he is dissatisfied with Harvard's system; the fact that Overseers' staff members attend visiting committee meetings...
Designed by Sasaki Associates of Watertown, the Forrestal Center will include in addition to sites for industrial plants and office buildings 1600 housing units, a 400-room hotel and convention center, and a small neighborhood shopping center, Hire said. Current tenants of the center include the R.W. Johnson Foundation, RCA Corporation, Mobil Oil Corporation and the Dow Jones Corporation...
...Right now, there are a lot of rich Japanese who want really deluxe articles, and we feel that Motorola's big sets are perfect for the situation," says Tadahiko Sasaki, AIWA's sales promotion chief. Motorola, with its long head start on production, could undersell its rivals on their home ground. Transportation costs and Japanese taxes will raise the Tokyo price of Motorola Quasars to a range of $750 to $1,250, or 25% more than they cost in the U.S.-but that will still be below the introductory prices of $1,750 to $1,800 expected...
...raid on its offices had been staged by organized gangsters in retaliation against the newspaper's describing them in a story as "a pack of bandits." The thugs have since been captured, and last week police also nailed the leader of the gang, a notorious hoodlum named Michio Sasaki, on charges of engaging in another current underworld practice: shaking down corporations. Sasaki, police contend, used his knowledge of an irregular loan to blackmail one of Tokyo's top banks for $16,000. According to the cops, Sasaki's shakedown of another corporation netted him nearly...