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Many Japanese corporations consider it a necessary status symbol to hang a Matisse or a Renoir in their VIP reception rooms. Japan's newly rich are also well aware that such art is now a good investment. One Osaka real estate baron recently won fame in the trade by phoning an art dealer these directions: "Get me 100 million yen [$330,000] worth of art-get me whatever you think would prove moneymaking." Japanese art buyers are operating like Sony executives all over Europe and the U.S. "No hammers go down nowadays either at Christie's or Sotheby...
...props in a meticulously stage-managed convention, none were more prominent, or as appealing in their nontheatrical freshness, than the 3,200 Young Voters for the President, whose rehearsed exuberance enlivened every public event. They were bused to VIP airport arrivals and accorded 1,500 tickets to pack the galleries of convention hall, as well as to give the floor area enough young faces to help television viewers forget the fact that only 3% of the voting delegates were under 25. The boys beardless, the girls firmly bra-ed, they gave the Grand Old Party a cosmetic new look...
...Polish elementary school, Pisar is one of two to survive the holocaust. He calls the communal ties of Jews a "bond of suffering that comes whenever Jews are threatened." He felt the pull of that bond when he attended an international conference in Kiev last summer. After a VIP tour of the city, he became uneasy. "The [concentration camp] numbers on my arm," he recalls, "began to itch." When his turn came to speak, he threw away his prepared text and told the Soviet hosts that the tour had been incomplete: it had not included Babi Yar, where the German...
...President's type. On returning to Washington, Dr. Ward reported to his boss, White House Physician Walter Tkach, and gave the hospital good marks. The exercise was not academic; if Richard Nixon should need hospital care in China, he will get it in Peking Hospital's VIP wing...
...Barbarella. This year, as usual, Hope has been whisked from base to base like the VIP he is, and last week he went beyond that role, appearing at the North Vietnamese embassy in Laos, reportedly to seek permission to visit U.S. prisoners in Hanoi. Meanwhile, Fonda and company have continually encountered red tape ranging from visa problems to being virtually declared off-limits by American commanders...