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...Ambitions. As the newly merged Liberal-Democratic Party held its first meeting last week, the talk was that Kishi had definitely settled on his candidate for new Prime Minister. He is Taketora (literally, Bamboo Tiger) Ogata, 67, ex-editor of Asahi, Japan's leading daily, and Deputy Prime Minister in the late Yoshida regime. Ogata is a stocky, round-faced man whose baggy eyes sometimes suggest a Buddha on a bender. His past includes several incidents of personal courage against Japanese militarists before the war. With Nobusuke Kishi behind him, Ogata is the front-runner for leadership...
...July 1950 Ornithologist Elliott McClure, with a mixed armory of guns and hypodermics, began tramping Japan's bamboo thickets, mud flats and rice fields and grabbing young birds (in their nests) by the throat. McClure drew blood from their jugulars, soon proved their guilt. More than 60% of such favorite songsters as dusky thrushes and skylarks teemed with the virus, later with protective antibodies. More important in the spread of epidemics: herons, plumed egrets, cattle egrets, cormorants and blue magpies. (Major remaining problem in field work: Where does the virus hibernate...
...wide-ranging report on life in Russia and Communist China. At week's end, Max put the Cossets on a plane for Moscow, first stop on their trip to gather material for the report and try to take a comprehensive public-opinion poll behind the Iron and Bamboo Curtains...
Yokoyama began his volcanic life in turbulence. He was born in a bamboo grove, where his mother had crept to escape the swinging swordsmen of feuding samurai factions at the dawn of the Meiji Era. Sent to a Tokyo art school, Yokoyama soon proved his talents for 1) outstanding brushwork and 2) consuming sake. Advised by a professor to drink either one sho (3.8 pints) of sake a day or nothing, Yokoyama took to the bottle in earnest. Today he begins his day by downing a prebreakfast glass full of his favorite sake brand, "Inebriate Soul", during the rest...
...great deal of his spare time is still devoted to his curbstone clinic, still without fee. What little is left, Stapp spends as a happy-go lucky gardener. His fig, tamarind, apricot and northern bamboo trees lean in splendid disarray among the devil grass. Never having fully recovered from his career as a Wear-Ever salesman, Bachelor Stapp is also an accomplished cook. Visiting Air Force brass, or important civilians such as Northrop's Chief Mechanic Jake Superata (whom Stapp credits with much of the rocket research success), have learned to test their palates on Stapp-prepared specialties...