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...trip itself will be a rather engaging spectacle. Not long ago, Hirohito confessed that he still kept an old Paris Metro ticket as a memento of the freest, happiest days of his life. In 1921, when he was Crown Prince, Hirohito boarded the battleship Katori for a six-month tour of Europe. His jet flight this week will get him there in 15 hours, instead of the 65 days it took the lumbering Katori to reach England. Accompanied by the Empress Nagako, 68, who has never been abroad, Hirohito will visit seven European countries...
...dealer and perennial political campaigner, was making his fourth attempt to win the mayoralty. Both newspapers, the morning Advertiser (circ. 72,000) and the evening Star-Bulletin (circ. 123,000), endorsed his opponent. In one issue, the Bulletin ran a photographic view of Honolulu's memorial to the battleship Arizona, marred by junked automobiles on property incorrectly identified as leased to Fasi. The candidate seethed. He seethed again when the paper enjoined its readers to "Wake Up Hawaii-Vote Republican" beneath a full-page advertisement for Democrat Fasi...
...Extréme Orient in 1910. Involved in nationalist agitation from his youth, he found it prudent to get out of the country for a while and moved to France. In 1919, as a draftee in the French navy, Thang joined a Communist-led mutiny when his battleship sailed to the Black Sea port of Sevastopol with other Allied vessels in an effort to overthrow the Bolshevik regime. He was expelled from the service and returned to Indo-China, where in 1929 he was sent to the penal colony at Poulo Condore for seditious activity. Not until...
...Work will begin next January, and the first tenants are expected to move in in early 1971. Plans call for installing floors either by pour ing cement into forms at every level or by affixing prefabricated circles. Jackhammers will cut windows and outside balcony spaces in the battleship-gray walls, which are eight inches thick, and elevators will be installed inside. On completion, the silos will have 132 circular apartments, including 84 split-levels, each 23 feet in diameter. In addition, there will be 24 rectangular apartments in the adjoining grain elevator. Rents, including utilities and furnishings (even the beds...
...force included three attack aircraft carriers and an anti-submarine aircraft carrier, with a total of more than 200 planes, three cruisers, 22 destroyers, at least five submarines, five or six supply ships and, briefly, U.S.S. New Jersey, the world's only operative battleship. A perplexing question is why so formidable a fleet was needed...