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...baskets? I mean in basketball. Do you play it still? And football, and baseball? You must be playing baseball; we call it the national pastime, if you do not count self- inspection. (A future without baseball?) Did I mention hibachis, Exercycles, capped teeth, diet drinks, sofa beds, Winnebagos, microwaves, VCRs, IBMs, electric pencil sharpeners, electric knives, electric chairs, Minute Rice, bullet trains, Dial-A-Prayer, Dial-A-Psychotherap ist, automatic windows, automatic doors, wash 'n' wear, Shake 'n' Bake, heat 'n' serve? Did I tell you the one about the traveling salesman, or the minister, the rabbi and the priest...
...hardly headline news anymore when a Japanese company opens a plant in an American town to make television sets or trucks, cars or VCRs. Recently, though, Japanese firms have been taking on a new mantle, this time as big-time U.S. landlords. Last week Mitsui Real Estate Development snapped up one of the best-known office towers in the U.S., paying $610 million for the Exxon Building...
...pleased, he was close to getting someone else to join the "Kult of Kemp." "You know, Jon, when Kemp is elected president, there'll be two VCRs in every house," he asserted...
...falters. When Japan's trade surplus with the U.S. finally declined slightly to $3.85 billion last month, from $4.03 billion in May, it was not because of the strenuous efforts by the Reagan Administration to reduce the American trade deficit. Nor were Americans buying fewer Japanese cars, cameras or VCRs nor consumers in Japan importing more U.S. goods. It was all because of the Emperor...
...Since VCRs have become the current wedding present of choice and hence may not be available to some couples until it is too late for Miss Manners' tape to be of any prenuptial planning benefit, some more immediate guidance may be called for. Remember the solemn words of Ted Schmidt, general manager of the socially favored Peter Duchin Orchestras: "For weddings, there are no second takes." All right, then. Action...