“Inejiro Ascmuma, 63, chairman of the Socialist Party. A gravel-voiced orator as round as he is tall (weight: 225 Ibs.), Asanuma is admiringly called “the man locomotive.” Thick-headed as well as hamhanded, Asanuma graduated from W’aseda University and promptly became a labor agitator. When a minority group of moderates bolted the party last November because of disgust with the Socialist leadership’s parroting of the Communist line, Asanuma was elected chairman of the remainder.”