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Peeling the Onion. A man of severe personal austerity (he drives an aging Dodge, sleeps only five hours a night), Park has as his administration's motto, "Seeing is believing." To that end, he travels frequently through the countryside, sharing rice wine and kimchi-the garlic-laden pickled cabbage of Korea -with farmers who still live and labor much as they did centuries ago. No gladhander, he adopts a professional role in explaining his aims to the people. The current goal: ratification of a Korean-Japanese treaty (TIME, April 2) that would normalize relations between the two antagonistic neighbors...
...neighbors in Zambia and Malawi. A new warning by British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning U.D.I. only added to Smith's strength, and by the time election day rolled around, there were few white Rhodesians who did not agree with the unofficial motto of the Smith machine: "We would rather go bust than black...
...candy, cattle feed and air conditioners, plastics and newspapers. The world's biggest producer of salt-and the source of nearly a third of the salt used for all purposes in the U.S.-is Chicago's Morton Salt Co., which is known to most Americans through its motto, "When it rains, it pours...
...motto seems to apply to the company as well as to its product. Last week, in a veritable cloudburst of activity, privately owned Morton Salt 1) announced that it will change its name to Morton International to reflect its spreading interests, 2) acquired the $28 million Simoniz Co., a maker of auto and furniture polishes, and 3) for the first time in its 117-year history issued an annual report, which showed that Morton earned a profit of nearly $6,200,000 on last year's sales of $95 million...
...first trace of rain. A worse, all-weather hazard comes in the form of mud or rock walls dumped across roads by enterprising tribesmen, who live all year on the fees they earn for removing them. "In Kenya," says one old African hand, "Harambee is a national motto. It means 'Let's all push together.' The trouble is that half the blighters are pushing the car while the other half are pushing up the price...