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...Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. as a three-person shop in 1918, built it into one of the world's largest producers of consumer electronic goods, and used his prestige to expound opinions on everything from nuclear power (he favors it) to the businessman's role as the servant of society. In 1973 he retired, but only to become more active in other fields. His earnest, upbeat magazine PHP-Peace and Happiness through Prosperity-is Japan's largest-selling monthly. He is the most sought-after lecturer in Japan. This month the octogenarian opened the Matsushita School...
...work deliberately bore, like a condescending challenge, 'Are you good enough to keep up with us?' In one such scene, an actor sets a picnic table in front of a slide projection of trees and ferns, eats lunch and prattles about his relationship to Hitler as Obersalzburg servant. It's quite dull. Even... yes, banal. "Why are you fidgeting in your seats?" he turns quickly and asks the audience, smiling. "Bored?" He continues, undaunted by the repressed jeers. Syberberg knows he's boring the masses and, with contempt, he continues. Adolph Hitler, he points out, did everything but bore...
...misses a board meeting. The officers begin to speculate that perhaps the influenza epidemic or a terrible accident has stricken the boss. He, in fact, is missing the meeting to be at the sick bed of his chauffeur--his only true friend. Mosley contrasts P.S.'s affection for his servant with his marked coldness toward his wife. P.S. is the first of many du Ponts in the book whose friendships and love-lives are warped by the excesses and eccentricities of their upbringing...
...known. The Argentinian apparently accompanied Bourguet to Tehran in March, where he tried his hand at negotiating an end to the crisis. According to White House officials, Villalón was acting on his own in drafting the purported message from Carter to Khomeini, though a senior civil servant in Iran insisted that Villalón did it at the White House's request. (The day of Powell's denial, a high-level member of Carter's National Security Council said that some elements in the Villalón message were "familiar.") In any event, Villal...
...view of Western diplomats, an ambitious powerbroker who puts personal game above political and even religious scruples. And as head of the Islamic Republic Party, the Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, 51, represents the most serious opposition within Iran to President Banisadr. Beheshti, says a senior civil servant in Tehran who knows both men well, "won't let Banisadr sit back and enjoy...