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Yoshitaka Hojo, 47, a sales engineer for a leading Tokyo appliance firm, went through such a routine six nights a week for 20 years. He admits he became a hopeless alcoholic. "I soon found myself drinking a bottle and a half of whisky per day." He was hospitalized 14 times, including five stays in a mental institution. Throughout this period, his employers showed extraordinary patience. So did his wife. Says Hojo: "Without their help I would have ended up in Skid Row." Instead, he joined Danshu-Kai. or the All-Nippon Sobriety Association, the Japanese equivalent of Alcoholics Anonymous, which...
...white wall. Two 32-in.-high nude statues of her stand on the piano, a nude painting of her hangs on the wall, and there are photographs of her everywhere. Hers is an egocentricity so forthright and complete as to be pure, like that of a six-month-old baby, happy in the discovery of her body...
...signed a $500 million contract with Lockheed for twelve wide-bodied TriStar L-1011s, and last week small, state-owned Singapore Airlines (SIA) stole Pan Am's headlines. It placed with Boeing the richest order in commercial aviation history: $900 million for 13 jumbo 747s and six medium-range 727s. Gleefully grabbing the record claimed weeks earlier by Lockheed executives, Boeing insisted: "This is the 'order of the century...
...quarter of the $900 million will come from the sale of older and thirstier 707s, 737s and 747s, and SIA will wind up with a fleet of no more than 32 jets. A further quarter will be provided by internal cash flow generated by its policy of using speedy six-year plane depreciation (vs. about 15 years for most U.S. airlines). The rest, or about $450 million, will be financed externally. Says Pillay: "We shall approach the Export-Import Bank for about $360 million and get the rest from commercial U.S., European and Asian banks." If any part...
...would neither help nor hinder her, but then proceeded to do things that looked suspiciously like help: answering questions, writing letters of introduction, letting friends and associates know that they could cooperate or not with the young biographer as they pleased. Many hundreds did, and Biographer Bair had six years of work cut out for her. They were worth it. Samuel Beckett could have come swaddled in doctoral dissertationese, a hedging, clotted tongue as dead as ancient Babylonian. Instead, the book is a model of judicious, lively scholarship, an impressive translation of an enigma into...