Waitt, who sports casual clothes and shaggy strawberry-blond hair, is one of myriad monied outsiders buying their way into show business, including Marshall Field heir Frederick (Ted) Field and Federal Express founder Frederick Smith.

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Field, the New York exchange denied telegraph access to any outsiders who didn't route orders through a network owned by the exchange.

WSJ: New Twist Is Added to an Age-Old Saga

Few outsiders know the paroxysms Japan goes through in trying to reconcile its constitutional vow to not field a military with the reality of having one of the world's biggest and best-armed forces.

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