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JAPAN. Where the traditional greeting is a bow rather than physical contact, politicians maintain almost total aloofness. During election tours, the Prime Minister and other leaders are constantly surrounded by police, making their open-air speeches from sound trucks and never mixing with the crowd. They wave to the crowds from inside, and when a stop is made, a corridor of police forms for the politician to move from vehicle to building. Breaking through such lines to shake hands is all but unheard...
...Exhibit. The U.S. tour begins with a bow to the Bicentennial: the imperial party will go straight to the restored colonial town of Williamsburg, Va. Then they fly to Washington for full-dress reception and state dinner in the White House. Empress Nagako, an accomplished amateur painter, will view a specially mounted exhibit of Japanese art at the Smithsonian Institution's Frer Gallery (TIME, Sept...
...over, and shaken like a dusty carpet--and when the air clears we can say for certain that a part of our lives will never again be the same. And that is what is being said by the small, but ever increasing stream of visitors to the Underdog on Bow Street: visitors who, as often as not came to order a Kosher frank, and stayed to play Wizard...
...this should extend to England as the Provisional IRA has promised it would); and second, strong diplomatic pressure from the European Economic Community countries, with large Catholic populations, to stay in Northern Ireland and protect the Catholic minority from any possible repression or massacre. Whitehall might have to bow to these pressures even in the event that a majority of Ulstermen vote for independence from Britain--a decision that the British government has said it would respect...
Drifting lazily to earth under its canopy of three red and white parachutes, the Apollo spacecraft hit the gentle Pacific swells northwest of Hawaii just 4½ miles off the bow of the recovery carrier New Orleans. The only visible problem aboard the craft as it returned from its historic space rendezvous with a Soviet Soyuz was minor. Some of the parachute shrouds caught on the Apollo's nose and capsized it; that left Astronauts Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand and Donald ("Deke") Slayton hanging face down from the straps holding them in their contour-fitted couches for several minutes...