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...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 of the new party and the Prime Ministership, both to be decided in April...
...tunnels during the previous year. ¶1953: a convict-made bomb killed Prison Manager Albert Gruber. A two-day riot and $500,000 fire killed one prisoner, destroyed five buildings. One-quarter of the prisoners (400 men) held a "sleep strike" after using barbiturates to go on a mass bender...
...Committee on Undergraduate Costs: Wilbur J. Bender '27, Dean of Admissions, now on Sabbatical; Dean Leighton; John U. Monro, Director of the Financial Aid Office; Daniel S. Cheever '39, Lecturer in Government and Burr Senior Tutor of Winthrop House; Charles H. Taylor, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History and Master of Kirkland House; F. Skiddy von Stada, Jr. '38, Dean of Freshmen; and Frederick B. Deknatel, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts...
...said Senator George Bender. "I have faith in God and Dwight Eisenhower." Blurted a reporter: "In that order?" Replied Bender: "Yes." At his press conference next day. President Eisenhower gave the reporters another inkling of his problem. "What I intended to imply [to the Ohioans] he said, "[is] that if I now were such an infallible prophet that I could understand all about the world situation, the domestic situation and my own situation, including the way I felt, and possibly with the health and everything else, as of that moment, then there would be no great excuse for deferring...
...airing of Talbott's techniques with R.C.A. sent Capitol Hill Republicans into a swivet. Ohio's Republican Senator George Bender said expansively that Talbott is known "as the most cussingest man in Ohio-but aside from that I do not know of any other impropriety." There were other Republicans who thought that Talbott should be summarily fired; a Senate party caucus broke up in total disagreement about what should be done. Capitol Hill Democrats, meanwhile, were gloating quietly, smiling at Harold Talbott, while skillfully leading him-with substantial help from Talbott-to the chopping block...