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When Matsushita was told that he would be on TIME's cover. Tokyo Bureau Chief Don Connery warned him that the story must be critical as well as comprehensive. "Explore and analyze the economy and my company like a surgeon with a knife." Matsushita answered. "Wield your knife as you wish." The exploration on the spot was done by Connery; the story was written by Everett Martin and edited by Robert Christopher...
...past year in Laos, Iran, and Jordan for stories that displeased the censors. In Ghana, a local distributor, on his own initiative, prudently burned all copies of one issue that reprinted a cartoon from the Manchester Guardi an showing Nkrumah gagging the press. In Arab countries, censors sometimes wield their scissors as if they were scimitars. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria and Libya have confiscated or cut pages out of issues in recent months, and in Iraq the censor has objected to stories about Middle Eastern politics, to cartoons, to a classically painted nude, and to stories, and even...
...speech Tuesday Toomey cited the need to expose the great political influence which Harvard and M.I.T. wield. (It was rumored last year that the University's influence in Washington had been an important factor in getting Gov. Volpe to veto the stilts sale...
...Bank. Unhampered by the kind of legislation that restricts the scope of U.S. banks. West German banks combine the functions exercised in the U.S. by investment banking houses, commercial banks and savings banks, are also free to operate mutual funds and act as brokers. As a result, German bankers wield far more power than their U.S. counterparts. And as boss of his nation's biggest bank, Hermann Abs is the most powerful German banker...
...chairman of Pittsburgh's Consolidation Coal Co., is also the nation's biggest coalman. Chrysler's directors turned to Love because he is a proven comeback champion (his Consolidation is highly profitable despite the slump in coal). New Chairman Love will make policy and wield virtually the same powers as did former Chairman Lester Lum Colbert; Townsend will boss day-to-day operations, much as did former President William Newberg...