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...spartan cell is no different from that of any ordinary inmate at the Tokyo House of Detention-a 6-ft. by 9-ft. concrete cubicle furnished with two tatami mats, a collapsible table and a toilet. Former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka's new quarters were a long way from the exquisitely landscaped home across town where he lived until his arrest last week. Yet the House of Detention was not wholly unfamiliar to "Kaku-san," as he was once affectionately nicknamed. In 1948, as a brash young member of the Japanese Diet, he spent three weeks there on charges...
...attends chapel with Charlotte and their eleven children at 8. A firm believer in hard exercise, he rides every day, rain or shine, for three or four hours and often ends the evening with several hours of simple country dancing. His other habits are equally Spartan. Lunch is usually nothing more than tea and bread and butter; dinner is often boiled mutton and turnips, washed down with barley water. He dresses plainly, and he will not even allow a rug on his bedroom floor, calling such a luxury an effeminacy...
...Tidewater management and Standard Oil (New Jersey), which dominated Tidewater, Getty by 1937 had won control of Mission Corp., a holding company with substantial shares in Tidewater and Skelly Oil (Getty did not win numerical control of Tidewater until 1951). During World War II, he ran Tulsa's Spartan Aircraft Co., a Skelly subsidiary, forcing supervisors to sit behind a huge eight-ball if they did not meet production schedules...
Thus the former Jesuit seminarian with the classical world view who has been known chiefly for his studied Spartan life-style and talk about lowering expectations must be taken a bit more seriously in the Democratic scramble. TIME Los Angeles Bureau Chief Jess Cook herewith examines the Governor's record and his chances...
...spartan office on Capitol Hill, Democratic Congressman Jim Lloyd of California scanned a letter from seven liberal colleagues last week. They urged him to support their drive to reduce sharply President Ford's proposed all-time high ($113.3 billion) defense budget for fiscal 1977. With no hesitation, Lloyd took a felt-tipped pen and scrawled a bold, red NO across the top of the letter, then underscored the word three times for emphasis...