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...intellectual. He is known in some quarters as a "wakatta man," for his habit of interrupting anyone speaking to him in mid-sentence by snapping "Wakatta, wakatta"-the Japanese equivalent of the Italian capita, capita (I understand). "He talks too fast and too much," says one sympathetic critic, Chiba University Professor Keihachiro Shimizu. "Perhaps that is his way of attempting to hide his lack of learning and deep ideas. By talking fast he often seems to try to awe his interlocutors. That won't work...
...operation was developed in Japan 20 years ago, Dr. Overholt, whose Overholt Thoracic Clinic is one of the world's most distinguished centers for treatment of chest diseases, heard of the technique only in 1957. Then, a visiting Japanese physician described work done by Professor Komei Nakayama of Chiba University during World War II's blackout on international reporting of scientific advances. A huskily built, aggressive and imaginative surgeon, Dr. Nakayama reasoned that earlier operations on asthma patients had been based on mistaken theories of how human nerve networks function. He concluded that a minute organ buried...
...Ortodoxos" are members of Chibás' own Cuban People's Party. "Eddy" Chiba ás was once an Autentico, a member of the Cuban Revolutionary Party, which has elected the last two Presidents of Cuba. But in 1947 he broke with the party, was soon denouncing Autentico officeholders as crooks and plunderers on his Sunday-night radio broadcasts. Cubans listened in fascination as Chibás assailed government graft and embezzlement. But he could never make his hottest accusations stick. For Chibás, the futile search for proof has been bitterly frustrating. "People...
Candidates of most parties, however, had done little more than cudgel their brains for spectacular schemes to attract attention. A woman candidate had persuaded one of her pretty girl campaign workers to do a strip for the cause. In a Chiba Prefecture town another candidate had stationed henchmen in all the local firehouses. Whenever an alarm came in, the watchmen tipped off campaign headquarters and the candidate's loudspeaker truck sped off to the scene of the fire to harangue the crowd...
Then Mrs. Negishi was heard from. He had left her and the kids behind in sweltering Tokyo and she, too, wanted a vacation in verdant Chiba. Wearily, Negishi returned to Tokyo to see what he could do about his wife's wish. With him was a 17-year-old youngster (the brother of the girl at the inn) who happened to be a pickpocket by profession. One day, when Negishi wondered aloud how he would ever pay for his wife's holiday, his companion advanced an idea. In one day, the pair lifted 800 yen ($2.20) from passengers...