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...kind of Japanese politician: a straight-talking, Oriental populist. Almost everything about the man has voter appeal, from his hoarse baritone to his bumper-sticker name (which literally means "Sharp Prosperity Amid Paddies"). Tanaka was born in a rice-belt village, in Niigata prefecture, the son of a horse trader who had a financially fatal weakness for gambling. At 16, young Tanaka quit school and lit out for Tokyo, where for three years he ran errands for a contractor by day and studied the construction business by night. Tanaka's budding business career was briefly sidetracked when the Imperial...
...same thing and gone unpunished on the llanos, "where the law that counts is that of the fastest." The defense claimed that on one occasion, the local DAS, the police force modeled on the Texas Rangers, helped kill 17 Indians accused of rustling cattle. One witness, an elderly trader, recalled that trappers used to offer him cured Indian skin along with crocodile hides and deer pelts. The llaneros even have a verb for Indian-hunting-guahibiar (which is derived from the name of another local Indian tribe, the Guahibo...
...long run by flamboyant Charles Engelhard, who before his death last year built up a billion-dollar business, mostly as an international trader and fabricator of precious metals. Engelhard does much business with Anglo-American Corp. of South Africa Ltd., which owns 30% of Engelhard's common stock and is run by Harry Oppenheimer, the South African mining magnate. But Rosenthal clearly would welcome any new business. Last year, on revenues of $1.5 billion, the company's earnings dropped from $36 million to $28 million...
...backs of the Angolese who had remained in their homeland. Needed agricultural goods were produced on slave plantations for the home market. Although Portugal's empire was tawdry by comparison with those of mightier European nations, the Portugese could not bear to give it up. As one trader-colonist wrote in 1882, "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed are king. As poor as I am now, if I returned to Portugal today, I would amount to zero. On the other hand, I am who I am here as long as I possess one piece of trade cloth...
Cerebral Clicks. A trainer for 39 of his 58 years, Whittingham was raised on a ranch in Otay, Calif., where as a boy he delivered newspapers on horseback. Serving variously as stable hand, exercise boy and horse trader, he came into prominence as a trainer in the mid-1950s, when one of his horses. Porterhouse, defeated the great Swaps, and another, Mr. Gus, upset Nashua...