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...daughter's wedding-bridal kimono, banquet, honeymoon and all-on his expense account. In fact, it is common practice in Japan to phone a friend at another company and ask permission to use his name for some fictitious entertainment. "I have done it whenever I needed a stiff drink for myself and my staff after a long spell of hard work," admits Toshimichi Natsume, a former Fuji Film Co. executive. "Then a few days later the friend would call back to reciprocate. As the saying goes, samurai must always sympathize with each other." The next step, as many...
Harvard led all the way from the start, picking up three seats on the Lions after the first 20 strokes and constantly lengthening the margin against a stiff head wind...
...answer is not to get 12% to 15% in wages. The answer is to hold down food costs and other costs." To do so, Meany proposed a World War Il-style controls program that would include a ceiling on profits and Government allocation of credit as well as stiff wage-price guidelines. Committee Chairman Wright Patman favors a stern program that would roll back rents to the levels of Jan. 10 (the last day of Phase II), freeze prices and interest rates across the board for 60 days at the levels of March 16, and then give way to stringent...
...sentencing the seventh conspirator, G. Gordon Liddy, who, like McCord, had pleaded innocent, to serve up to 20 years in prison and to pay a $40,000 fine. Liddy, who had worked with Hunt in the White House in trying to detect sources of news leaks, apparently got the stiff sentence-and no provision for its review-because he has not shown any sign that he could be persuaded to disclose more about the case. The Watergate crimes, said Sirica in sentencing, were "sordid, despicable and thoroughly reprehensible...
...thing, the golf team's Fall tryouts produced surprising results, with some of last year's varsity golfers failing to make this year's varsity in the face of stiff competition...