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...equivalent of a U.S. mayoralty) is former Police Chief Akira Hatano, 59, a first-time campaigner, hand-picked by Premier Eisaku Sato and his Liberal Democratic Party. Hatano joined the fray with a promise from Sato that if he wins, the federal government will put up 4 trillion yen ($11 billion) to make Tokyo livable again...
...finished, completed," says Candidate Hatano. "You can't do anything with them but a little bit here and there. Tokyo is not at all completed. It has a future because there is so much that can be done." Few would dispute that point-but will 4 trillion yen be enough, even for starters...
Operation of the pornetwork is simple. The tapes are run through a video player at the front desk. When customers drop a pair of 100-yen coins into a slot on a TV set in their rooms, the result is instant pornography, often in glorious Fujicolor. The odds are against tuning in at the beginning of the movie-the tape runs continuously. But picking up a show in midstream makes little difference; one popular pinkie simply follows an energetic coed as she hops in and out of a series of bedrooms...
Wrong Stereotype. Johnson, now 48, soon found that the pressures were frustrating his yen for long-range thinking. "For too many college presidents the long run is next Monday," he said last September as he announced his impending retirement. Johnson will replace James R. Killian Jr. (Eisenhower's science adviser) in the part-time post of chairman of the M.I.T. Corporation. Under an understanding becoming common between college presidents and their boards, Wiesner himself expects to serve as president for only five years...
...would be an oasis of laughter. His eye for the wryly amusing incongruities of life, his zingy one-line gag-ripostes, his ardently skilled desire to be entertaining-all these have made him the leading U.S. comic playwright for more than a decade. But like the clown with the yen to play Hamlet, Simon has had the urge, and been critically urged, to try his hand at more serious drama. The result is The Gingerbread Lady, a schizoid play in which the dramatist is so busy applying plasters of wit to woefully bruised psyches that the evening is doubly robbed...