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names in Canada but he is

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Biography, a feevinaing:.

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complicated man," says

Blisg, “Some will see him
asa fairly unlikable

man . While . researching

Japan’s women fight inequality -

: but thelr salaries are only 63 per cent those of men.”

TOKYO (AP) — Women workers in Japan earn
”-barely:half the average salary of men and many -
womedi' with college degrees are assigned such tasks
"a8 pouring tea for less educated male bosses. ..
Yet“after a six-year study, a Labor Ministry
advisory council has failed to come up with a plan sd
give womén equality in the work place. = —-
The government is trying to legislate job equality
soltcanratify a United Nations convention on ending
discrimination against women. But in a: " country
where business is stilt very much a man’s world, the
goitig is rough.
" “This is an extremely difficult problem in Japan,”
said ‘Michiko Watanabe, a lawyer who headed the
Women’ ‘sand Young Workers’ Problem Council study
on job equality legislation. “The confrontation
between employees and employers has been flerce,"".

The results of the study, submitted to Labor.

Minister Misoji Sakamoto last week, did point

coneliisively to the need for a job equality law. But”

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HANES BL in the study could agree on Hitle else,
CES SLIM

The ministry ‘will. iry to put together a’ draft’by the:
exid &F April, but chances of the law passing ix'the |
current seesion of the Diet (parliament) are alim,.
Watanabe: sald in a telephone Interview, “There's
going to be some heated debate.”
, amen: make up 54 per cent of Japan’s work force,

: Lipton’ s teataster
retires

pox Lee, NJ. (AP) — In 47 years of tasting tea
foe) J, Lipton Ine., NF-H. (Toby) Fleming
devel ‘a palate s0 aensitive be could distinguish
between Jeaves grown on adjoining estates — and his
impending retirement hasn't dampened his
enthudlasm for the brew.

‘The teas he has tested are so individual that those
from “gach of the 3,000 estates In Sri Lanka can be
distinguished from one another by tasting, sald”
Fleming, Lipton's chief taster and buyer.

A taster also can sometimes determine the
elevation of the field on which a tea was grown by the.
color, aroma and.fiavor, he added.

Tea tasting is an art rather than a science,” said
Fleming, whose initials stand for Noble Fernley
Hutthinson.

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conference, and from there on a worldwide tour to bid
farewell to the contacts he has. developed. ’
LED: TASTERS

Before be retired, Fleming was in charge of eight
buyers and five tasters entrusted with the task of
malntaining the quality of the blend of 20 tess In
Lipton’s Flo-Thru teabags and of the other teas the
Loodon-bared company produces,

Despite the thousands of mouthfuls of tea he has -

swished over his tastebuds and then spit into a.
cuspider, Fleming says his Jove for the beverage
endures

“| don't know of any tea man who doesn’t like tea,”’
he said.

Tasters sample teas by taking a spoonful and

slurping it so that it sprays against the backs of their
mouths, The technique allows the tea to be tasted and
smelled at the same time. The quality of tea, like.
wine, is determined by color, aroma and flavor.

Alter they have judged a tea, tasters spit-samples
into cuspiders so thelr palates do not become
Yatigued” and they do not become “water-logged, ”
Fleming explained.

Once a tea was deemed “useful,'' Fleming would
tell the company's buyers in tea-producing countries
such as Sri Lanka, India, Japan, China, Taiwan, .
Indonesia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and several
countries in South America what the highest price the
company would pay at the weekly auctions.

“It’s been a marvellous job,”’ said Fleming. “Tea is
a conservative, decent sort of business.” a

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‘by. faine,

an undistinguished, at
times even.

book, . Others * will - ‘say,’
: ‘Well, he was all right.*” .
a Banting: was, burened |
“He: was"
oi of, a ; Paradenical . - trapped by it," Bliss saya:. “spotlight,
, ~~ Banting was balled by'a’’
Srateful world as a
“ geniug, but in fact he waa ‘

-and-for hls place. in“the

‘dneomfortable “in, the
‘glare... |

‘reséarcher.
unpretentious but": he ‘nevertheless took easily

fought vigorously for his, to amoking and drinking
"In the big city. He sought .

share of the Nobel Prize: |
a | simple, loyal wife, just
“then. felt
Father glddy gir] and was
a. principal | in one of
Canada’s most

scandalous divorces.

FIGURE IN ‘SCANDAL ;
A lonely, homespun |

He: was’ pli tanical streak, he

Mom, yet married a |.

‘Posltions and expect women to quit when they. marry -
"or have children. Women held only. an estimated 6. 5~
per-cent-of executive slots in 182. ~~

_for women, and forcing companies to allow
- menstrual and e maatornlty jeaves. . ;

foollehy | farm boy with F) broad

i, attist ALY. Jackson with .

Many companies.do not hire women for executive’

“Many companies don't even. allow women, to take.

_ application tests,” Mayumi Moriyama, a House of
’ Councillors member: from the governing ‘Liberal

Democratic party, said In an interview. -

_ The Labor Standards Law, passed in 1947 "tor protect
women when job conditions were: much harsher, also.
has impeded ‘entrance into the business world by»
restricting, overtime, generally banning night work °

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His enemies were
‘enemies for life, But to his
friends, —_ particularly

“whom hé often sketched,
Banting ' was as loyal as

"an -airedale, .

Tn death he remains a
paradox, even to Bliss
who probably knows
Banting now better than
> anyone,

~ "7 don't think 1 need
- apologize for that," says’

“Bilas, “because that’s the
way Banting was, 8

tery. People want me
to’ stry to psychoanalyse
him, to say that he was a

. - black hat or a while hat.

That is exactly what I
won't do.’ |: >
Perhaps’: ‘Bliss’ comes
closest in the final lines of
the Boalt.
“Tr.
somember! him’ as an

better

ordinary | man. who

dreamed - af, and. was:
.. touched by, greatness,

many times fell woefully
short of his goals, but kept
on trying to do his duty.”

The ‘unsophisticated

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school ard served with
distinction as a front-line
doctor during | the, First

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house: im London, Ont.,
opened .a. practice and
intended to marry Edith

‘Roach and fill the house

with children. If he had,
he probably would have
been happier. But Roach

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was a “new woman” of
the 19203 with her own
career ambitions and the
romance fizzled,

He came to Torono and:
got involved in insulin’
research with ‘young
Chartes’ Bast;
experimenting on dogs
under smelly, sweltering _
conditions. They were .
supervised and guided by |
J.J.R. Macleod and the
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