Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stone-throwing republican in sight, but Akihito's unprecedented marriage was not quite the big draw everyone anticipated. Though officials had expected at least 1,000,000 people to jam the streets, only about half that number showed up; modern Japan preferred to watch the proceedings on television. Back in 1924, the Emperor's wedding had cost $1,500,000; the bill for Akihito's, with all banquets and receptions included, will come to only $140,000. The crowds waved and cheered, but not with the same frenzied banzais that once greeted the heir to the Emperor...
...crazy straw hats and Sweet Richard's single-entendre ditties at the Cat and Fiddle Club. Commerce, which flourished briefly in the blockade-running days of the Civil War and the rum-running days of Prohibition, is again running wild. And, in a respectable way, the pirates are back...
...Bolshevik Juan Marinello, Cuba's Communist Party, which got back into business the day Batista fell, is today at the peak of its influence. Its 24,000 members form the only active political party on the island. Card carriers or sympathizers in key civilian spots include: Carlos Franqui, former proofreader on the Red daily Hoy and now editor of Castro's paper La Revolution (circ. 80,000); David Salvador, chief of the labor federation; Francisco Alonso, head of the National Fine Arts Commission; Vicentina Antuña, chief of the National Institute of Culture...
...London newspaper reported that German-born Atom Spy Klaus Fuchs, in a British prison since 1950 for passing scientific secrets to the Russians, has been asked by Britain's government to plunge right back into his original line of work (theoretical physics) after he is sprung next June. Fuchs, according to the report, would take his talents, and presumably his refurbished loyalties, to Canada...
...Friend Dwight Eisenhower next month. The trip was postponed a year ago after Sir Winston came down with pneumonia. Earlier last week Cigar Chomper Churchill, about to fly home to England from the French Riviera, jauntily puffed on a cigarette, a rare indulgence for him, but he was back on big black stogies by the time he reached London Airport...