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...mystique that Japan's U.S. -dictated Constitution sought to destroy had been replaced by a new mystique; Hirohito's 18-day tour was dramatic proof of the change. Too Human. Some Japanese conservatives today would like to restore the old imperial symbolism and put Hirohito behind a bamboo screen like his great-grandfather Komei, who used to sit hidden, with only his bony knees and frail legs showing when he conferred with members of the state council. But the fact is that Hirohito himself, a constitutional mon arch without real power, has become far too human...
...imports this coal from the U.S. and elsewhere, at $11 to $17 a ton. She has similar trouble with salt, a staple of her chemical industry, on which the shipping costs alone are $12 a ton. Some of her prewar export markets are closed to her by the Bamboo Curtain, others by old hatreds, others by stiff free-world competition. Japanese silk, which used to be her biggest dollar earner, has been knocked out by modern synthetic fibers...
...Near the bamboo conference hut at Trunggia, 25 miles north of Hanoi, the Vietnamese coolies were planting fresh green shoots for a new crop of rice. Communist Viet Minh soldiers watched them from the road. Inside the hut, beribboned French and Vietnamese truce officers faced five Communist officers across a long table. The three Vietnamese fidgeted uneasily in their seats: it was their country whose fate was being decided, but they were forgotten men there...
Word sifted through the Bamboo Curtain that France's General Christian de Castries, gallant loser of the siege of Dienbienphu, was being "well treated" in a Viet Minh prison camp...
...pill at eleven," reported Novelist Aldous Huxley in The Doors of Perception. "I [was] in a world where everything shone with the Inner Light . . . The legs, for example, of that chair-how miraculous their tubularity ... I spent several minutes-or was it several centuries?-not merely gazing at those bamboo legs but actually being them . . ." Amateur Mystic Huxley was experimenting with mescaline, a drug which some have thought might become a psychiatrist's tool, like pentothal and Amytal. The purpose of these drugs is to banish a patient's inhibitions and "bring him out of himself...