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...into a suitcase?" she asked. Looking at her trim 5-ft., 100-lb. figure, Bernd gulped his drink and said they could try. If caught, Maria thought it meant three years in jail for her, ten for Bernd. "They'd accuse you of being a Western slave trader." They paid $6.50 for a brown plasterboard suitcase that...
...head of the clan was apparently an elderly farmer or trader; his sculpted face is creased with wrinkles, his lips slightly parted as if he were about to speak. A smirking, sharp-nosed woman may have been the farmer's wife, but whatever her identity, she had an extravagant taste for finery. She wears two sculpted necklaces, bracelets on both arms, large round earrings, rings on both index fingers, another on the fourth finger of the left hand, and a second thick band on the left index finger just above the first joint. All the other figures...
...wife Haru has an East-meets-West background that complements Reischauer's. Her mother was born in the U.S., where Haru's grandfather lived for 60 years and made his fortune as a silk trader. On her father's side, she is the granddaughter of Prince Masayoshi Matsukata, who was twice Prime Minister (1891-92, 1896-97). After attending Principia College in Elsah, Ill., Haru returned to Japan, after the war became a correspondent for U.S. magazines...
...operating a fleet of oceangoing freighters, Unilever sells soap, margarine, cooking oils, toilet articles, animal feed, canned and frozen foods, ice cream and sausages. Its 400 MacFisheries stores in Britain make it the world's largest fishmonger. One Unilever subsidiary, the United Africa Co., is the largest trader in Africa; another cultivates 213,710 acres of rubber, palm oil, cocoa and coffee plantations in six countries. With an annual ad budget of $300 million, Unilever is the world's biggest advertiser and, not surprisingly, operates one of Britain's largest advertising agencies. All told, Unilever includes...
Politically, U Thant takes a hardheaded Western view of economics, while maintaining the Eastern mystic's preoccupation with spiritual values. He calls himself a "democratic socialist," and argues with feeling: "There is something wicked about a society in which a successful trader can make a fortune but a successful teacher has to strike to get an adequate reward...