Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explains Club Tokyo Manager Motoki Inoue, is "sex equality in this he-man's land." Nightly, merry widows in miniskirts and portly housewives in kimonos turn up where the boys are. Some come in for the evening from as far as Osaka on the 125-m.p.h. bullet train; nearly all are between 30 and 40 years old. A middle-aged maitre d' guides each first-timer to a host after discreetly asking her preference. Regular customers streak straight to their favorites. Says one fortyish matron: "My husband leaves me alone with my two children at home...
...Cordice's chosen specialty was thoracic surgery. No U.S. school was willing to train him, and he had to go to Paris. That got him into Kings County (Brooklyn) Hospital for two years, and later he was named chief of both thoracic and vascular surgery at Harlem Hospital. So far, so good-or at least, not bad. But then Columbia's P. & S. took over Harlem, in a well-meant but abortive attempt by the city to raise ghetto-hospital standards. Columbia's white administrators did not bother to consult or even notify Dr. Cordice. They simply...
...universally admired in the music field. When Drake proclaims a hit-bound choice, the prophecy is often self-fulfilling because he controls so many successful stations. But the hits he creates, such as Sonny and Cher's I Got You, Babe and The Monkees' Last Train to Clarksville, can seldom be described as creative new works. A Los Angeles underground paper called Drake "a monument to public tastelessness." For better or worse, Drake is going to have more influence before he has less. Next month 21 new client FM stations will receive by mail, on reels pretaped...
...East African revolution, he gives up his vocation as a carpenter and buys a worthless grocery store from a wily Indian named Fakhru. Fakhru fleeces Fong daily, ultimately conning him into buying 27 cases of black-market UNICEF milk, on the unlikely chance that the regular milk train will be derailed by revolutionary terrorists. Meanwhile, Fong becomes a political pingpong ball in a riotous contest between Chinese Communists and American agents, both of whom have somehow concluded that Fong is a pivot in the ideological struggle between East and West. Fong endures it all with the patience of a grinning...
...trend with a vigorous drive for "Africanization." He has refused to issue work permits to non-Africans when blacks can perform the same job, ruled that certain rural businesses be operated by natives only. Kenyatta has also put pressure on big foreign-run companies to step up their management-training programs for black employees. Kenya's Labor Minister Eliud Ngala Mwendwa last month warned white and Asian businessmen that unless they train more blacks to fill management positions, they "will be seriously embarrassed and may even be forced out of business in the not-too-distant-future...