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...yen to succeed Eisaku Sato as Japan's Premier? The question is crucial because, in the election scheduled for next week within the powerful Liberal Democratic Party, whose president invariably becomes the next Premier, money had already begun to talk -and sometimes shriek. After Sato resigned with a farewell blast at the press-"I hate biased newspapers" -Japanese last week were counting not only the merits of the rival candidates but also the amounts of hard cash that they command...
Chiang Kaishek, Nationalist China's 84-year-old President, seemed aghast when it was first proposed to him that Vice President C.K. Yen, 66, resign his added post of Premier and that the generalissimo name his own son, Chiang Ching-kuo, 62, to fill the vacancy. Would that not, the Gimo demanded, be unseemly? Would it not seem to be the beginning of a dynasty...
...freed slave who rides through the Southwest righting wrongs with the help of three companions. At one point, shortly after dispatching a gang of drunken louts in a saloon set-to, they help a white homesteader fight off the attacks of a band of marauding outlaws. Charley develops a yen for the homesteader's half-breed wife, portrayed by a comely young actress named Tricia O'Neill, who represents the only vaguely interesting quality in the movie...
Raising Income. The changeover will affect almost every aspect of island life. Pay telephones are being fitted to take ten-yen coins instead of nickels; price tags and taximeters are being adjusted. Road signs will soon be changed from miles to kilometers, and eventually drivers will have to learn to use the left-hand side of the street. In what the Bank of Japan describes as the biggest shipment of money in history, a cargo of 54 billion yen (about $180 million) in bank notes and coins reached Okinawa secretly last month in preparation for a massive conversion of currency...
...Zenith's black-and-white set production from Chicago to Taiwan, and in mid-1971 he sadly announced that he would transfer color-set production as well. But he saw a much brighter picture as soon as the U.S. devalued the dollar, pressured Japan into revaluing its yen and took a sterner stand against Japanese dumping...