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...Lobbing. Says Carol Asada, 22, a pre-med junior at U.C.L.A. and president of Medicus, a pre-med student organization: "There's a lot of hostility and jealousy among students who are getting top scores." Complains another premed: "They're afraid if they tell you something you may get a better score than theirs." Few friendships survive such pressures. "One person might have a copy of last year's exams in a course and absolutely won't show it to anyone else," moans another Duke student...
...better way of escaping, at least emotionally, is by taking an active part in the civil rights movement. The crusade began in 1922 when a poor shoemaker named Zennosuke Asada formed the Suiheisha (Levelers' Society), forerunner of the Liberation League. In 1968 the movement won passage of a law banning public inspection of the social registers that contain the family history of every Japanese citizen. A year later the league successfully backed a civil rights law that commits public funds-$400 million this year-for buraku housing, high school scholarships and vocational training...
...Denmark's beautiful small building of latticed woods and spacious glass, a superb Danish smorgasbord is served for $6 a person. Sweden presents its own excellent smorgasbord for the same price. At the Indonesia pavilion, the Kambing Masak Bugis and Ajam Pang-gang cost $6.50. From Mexico (Came Asada Tampiquena, $7) to India (Chicken Masala Jaipure, $5.75), the fair abounds in places where one can eat well and pay well...
...filled with some of the Empire's fairest women, including 45 students of the Tokyo brides' school. Neither Peers nor newshawks could restrain smoldering glances at the visitors' necks, chalk-white with rice powder. The genteel interplay of glances was abruptly interrupted by Imperialist Baron Ryoitsu Asada...
...director, Asada ta Dafora, himself a native of Sierra Leone, an accomplished interpretive dancer who has given a series of recitals sponsored by royalty in the capitols of England, Belgium, and Germany...