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...children. He made several tours in the early '20s to raise money for a grammar and high school at home, only yielded to repeated pleas to permit the movie of his life when convinced that it might inspire patriotism. The movie brought him some $150,000 -plus a yen for philanthropy, countless spongers he was too soft to turn down, and eventually a $172,000 bill in taxes and interest from the Internal Revenue Service, which he never could pay. After ten years of litigation, IRS settled for $25,000, which was paid in a fund drive directed...
...about kidnaping that sentences for the most successful snatches (unless they involve murder) seldom exceed six months. Japanese law is modeled on the German criminal code of 1907, which viewed kidnaping as a minor crime because it was so rare. But in postwar Japan, the soft law and a yen for yen have sharply increased what the French call "the American crime." Over a ten-year period, Japan recorded 4,728 kidnap cases, and the maximum penalty of ten years was given only 2% of the perpetrators...
When the full report of the Warren Commission is published, perhaps by month's end, it may well reflect the theory that Lee Harvey Oswald had an obsessive yen to kill-not just John F. Kennedy, but any notable person. According to that theory, Kennedy was no more than a famous target to Oswald...
Gamble on Change. Last week lines of tourists bought up pounds, francs and yen from Deak's Perera Co., busiest currency exchange in the U.S. and only one of Deak's skein of 20 currency "stores." The tourist trade is a small part of Deak's business; his plumpest profits come from the active shufflings of currencies in crisis. "Whenever countries are not stable," says Deak, "their currencies are heavily traded." Currency speculators and companies operating in inflation-ridden countries such as Brazil or Italy try to conserve the value of their cash by buying or selling...
...WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT. Teen-Agers Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth racket about Manhattan as a pair of metro-gnomes in hilarious pursuit of Peter Sellers, a playboy pianist with a yen for footloose matrons...