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Here each student must stand before his peers and give an intensely personal five-minute speech called 'My Ambition.' Sweating and trembling, the student explains how he plans to meet obligations to company and family and enumerates his weak…

At an opening ceremony the 150 students are introduced and learn the daily schedule.

Midway through the course, each trainee must do something so embarrassing that any business challenge thereafter will seem like a snap. Standing ramrod-straight in front of the Fujinomiya train station, he must sing 'The Salesman's Song' loud enough…

Fists clenched, tunic festooned with 17 'ribbons of shame,' this new arrival at Japan's Kanrisha Yosei Gakko (Managers Training School) in Fujinomiya, 55 miles from Tokyo, faces the toughest education of his life. Over the next 13 days he must…

Comedian George Burns, 87, on hand to talk about being in good shape, smiles at some women in the New York Health & Racquet Club gym May 5, 1983. The show business figure was holding a press conference about his new book, 'How to Live to Be 100--Or…

Portrait of Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve.

As the bull passes and leaps into the air, much to the surprise of the fans the Banderillero raises his cape. The bull landed only to be beat and killed later.

Photographer created concept without direction for story on building your own house.

The morning after it became clear what happened--a section of the I-95 bridge over the Manus River in Greenwich, Connecticut had simply dropped out of place. Three were killed and three were injured from the fall.

Science Fiction author Ray Bradbury--holding back the light at the Huntington Hotel.