Word: akihito
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Crown Prince Akihito, 35, the first son of Japan's Emperor Hirohito, and Princess Michiko, 34, common-born daughter of a wealthy industrialist: their third child, first daughter; in Tokyo...
...state occasion in Buenos Aires' majestic Colon Theater. In honor of visiting Japanese Crown Prince Akihito, the city had scheduled a gala performance of Stravinsky's ballet Rite of Spring, and Juan Carlos Ongania, the retired general who seized power last year, had agreed to attend. Ongania was not enjoying himself. In the middle of the performance, he rose from the presidential box and ushered his wife and 28-year-old daughter Sara to the rear. Rite of Spring, he informed Mayor Eugenio Schettini the next day, was a dirty ballet and should not be permitted in Buenos...
Born. To Crown Prince Akihito, 31, No. 1 son of Japan's Emperor Hirohito, and Princess Michiko, 31; their second child, second son; in Tokyo...
...faculty grumbling, and Romulo named a batch of 18 faculty committees to give the faction-ridden teachers a sense of responsible participation in the administration. He was equally tactful toward the young rebels in the student body of 18,000, shamed them into abandoning a demonstration against Visiting Prince Akihito of Japan by offering to help with the picket signs it the students promised to keep their protest dignified. Philippine nationalists, who opposed Romulo as a "brown American" because of his close ties with the U.S., became his supporters after he encouraged the study of national history and literature, offered...
...pigeons have dovetailed nicely into less somber editorial projects. When Crown Prince Akihito sailed on his first overseas tour, Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun (circ. 3,800,000) sent along a photographer and four birds; one brought a royal picture home from 250 miles at sea for a front-page scoop. Wings beat for Mainichi again when U.S. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall climbed Mount Fuji in 1961. Halfway to the summit, a cameraman released two pigeons which covered the 70 air miles to Tokyo just in time for the evening edition. The Mainichi flock scored its latest coo last October...