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...Keizo Saji, 59, the professorial chairman of Suntory Ltd. He and his family own Suntory still, pot and barrel. Last year the company's after-tax profits are estimated to have reached $57 million on sales of $2.8 billion. With volume last year of 26 million cases of Scotch-type whisky, Suntory not only commands 64% of Japan's whisky market but also claims to be the world's leading private distiller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Saga off Rising Suntory | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

Most island visitors prefer Scotch or martinis. After soaping off the Coppertone, they generally settle for dinner and dreams. For the indefatigable, however, there is nightlife on Maui. There are waiting lines outside the Lost Horizon disco at the Wailea Beach Hotel; the Royal Lahaina's Foxy Lady packs in upper teenagers and the Tommy Dorsey set in equal numbers. The island's hottest spot is the Bluemax, in the town of Lahaina, where visiting Elton John and Linda Ronstadt have done their stuff off the cuff; the place is packed nightly in hopes that other drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Maui: America's Magic Isle | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...Sergeant Harry Woods, are working directly under Gruppenführer Fritz Kellerman, senior SS officer and police chief of Great Britain. Unlike his compatriots, the Yard man is free to move around at will in a prewar Railton automobile; he gets German-issue cigarettes, frequent dollops of real Highland Scotch, and attends fraternal parties at which the occupiers, and collaborationists from bed, board room and Burke's Peerage, shamelessly down quantities of beluga caviar and champagne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ungreened Isle | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...think I've died and gone to heaven," sighed a portly conventioneer at the New York Hilton's Rhinelander Gallery. He was not, as the conventional wisdom might suggest, fondling a blond or slurping a Scotch. He was excavating a nut-topped jamoca almond fudge, his choice from 32 cholesteroliferous varieties of ice cream dispensed at a 200-ft. bar by Detroit Diesel Allison during the four-day American Trucking Association's convention in October. The ice cream spectacular, with miniskirted waitresses, straw-hatted scoopers and a candy-striped orchestra, was only one of the multitudinous extravaganzas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Truckin' De Luxe at the Hilton | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

John inherited his share of Scotch business acumen and has been running business enterprises since he was a mere toddler. His youthful passion for sports had to be checked when he developed bone chips in his ankles and elbows. Unable to play football, he spent seventh and eighth grade taking photographs of the players on his junior high football team and then sold the glossies to his schoolmates...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The M(a)cLeod 'Brothers': Nos. 23 and 43 Are OK | 11/16/1978 | See Source »

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