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Periodically, the Emperor and Empress receive their five surviving children (two daughters are dead) and ten grandchildren. Rigid court protocol requires that the receptions be held separately. The two sons and daughter of Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko are royal. The seven children who belong to the Emperor's three daughters cannot be received at the same time because they are considered commoners; their mothers married commoners and thereby lost royal status...
...prisons and streets of our country are full of replacements adequate in every respect, from snub-nose revolvers to a pseudopolitical doctrine, to exculpate their licentiousness and shift the blame to where it does not belong...
...feet wide-has the virtue of eerie acoustics: a single guitar chord can echo for 15 seconds. It is an adventurous, unlikely place for a party, reminiscent of that late-show sewer epic, The Third Man. Some older Americans might say, reflexively, of the rock-loving young: "They belong in a sewer." But as one participant explained: "There's no other place we could get together like this without being hassled...
...it?especially the working men and women who are expected to toil under its restrictions. The President's freeze on wages, in effect, is a sacrifice demanded of each of them. After an initial burst of optimism over the President's speech, laboring Americans?including millions who do not belong to unions?were be ginning to realize that his plan placed limits on their livelihood such as have not been dreamed of for a generation...
...control by an executive council of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. In this way, he has steadily built up the power of the federation. When former Teamster Boss Dave Beck lectured him on how union funds should be invested in common stocks, Meany shot back: "You are a good businessman. You belong in the business world and not in the labor world...