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...JAPAN, once a leader in quality movies, the film business is depressed. The thicket of TV antennas sprouting over Tokyo rooftops explains the country's state better than any statistics. Practically every Japanese home has a TV set. New film releases last year totaled 333. More than two-thirds of these were "pinkies," as Japanese call their mass-produced pornos−the kind that Actor Mitsuyasu Maeno starred in until he died a kamikaze's flaming death crashing a Piper Cherokee onto the home of Lockheed Lobbyist Yoshio Kodama (TIME April 5). Box office receipts were deceptively high...
...hegemony has drawn the attention of the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust division. Yet for the first time, IBM also faces competition from manufacturers who have learned that profits follow the bouncing ball. It has taken competitors as long as ten years to engineer their way past the thicket of patents that IBM erected around its invention. Since last summer, however, five companies have entered the single-element field. At least one more is expected. Chief among the rivals is the Royal Typewriter Co., a division of Litton Industries, whose new offering is called the 5000. Other brand names...
...years a handful of communal farmers were the only inhabitants of the 120-acre area of thicket and coconut groves 20 miles south of Mexico's swank Acapulco resort on the Pacific. Then in 1968, Dallas multimillionaire Troy V. (for Victor) Post, newly enriched by the sale of his Greatamerica Corp. to Ling-Temco-Vought for $500 million, brought his genius and fortune to bear on the wasteland. Before long he had transformed it into an earthly paradise, a resort complete with a luxury hotel and detached villas, two of the world's best golf courses, an Olympic...
Today the resort that Post named Tres Vidas en la Playa (translation: "three lives on the beach") is slowly reverting to the thicket it once was. On once velvety golf links, cattle nibble at the patches of imported English grass that have survived months of neglect. Rows of expensive golf carts sit rusting in the salt spray from the nearby Pacific. The Olympic and villa pools, long stagnant, are covered with algae-green slime. Outside the compound's wrought-iron gates, striking waiters, maids and maintenance men-who have been picketing since July under a red and black strike...
Women now know better; a thicket of prejudice and privilege remains. Christabel, however, was a portent. As she disentangled herself from the traditional female role, her independence often appeared wayward, willful and puzzling...