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Sanzo Nozaka, 68, chairman of the Japanese Communist Party. A trim, dapper theoretician who learned his Marxism in Moscow, Nozaka was educated at Tokyo's Keio University, joined the Reds during a 1920 visit to Britain, where he studied under Clement Attlee at the London School of Economics. Deported, he returned to Japan and was in and out of jail until 1931, when he fled to Russia with his wife and became an executive member of the Comintern. In 1943. Nozaka was sent to join Mao Tse-tung in the Yenan caves as an adviser...
...ancient masterpieces and oddments. There was everything from brilliant primitive paintings to snuff boxes shaped like glass slippers, 14th century Tuscan ceramics and the red-fringed picnic basket that an 18th century Corsini cardinal once took into the Vatican conclave from which he emerged, basket on arm, as Pope Clement XII. The Serristori loaned their priceless illuminated manuscripts, as well as two elaborately decorated Renaissance trays once used to carry water to noblewomen in labor. A plate bearing the arms of Roberto Strozzi and Maddalena de Medici marked one of the great weddings of the 16th century. A delicately inlaid...
...news that Church will make the 1960 keynote speech is not necessarily good either for Democrats generally or for Church himself. The paths of keynote-speech glory lead but to the political grave, it seems. Republican Arthur Langlie and Democrat Frank Clement, the 1956 keynoters, are both politically jobless. And Democrats might well worry a bit about Frank Church's florid oratorical style, ominously reminiscent of the embarrassingly overwrought tirade that Tennessee's Governor Clement gushed forth in 1956 ("How long, oh how long, America?"). Perhaps as a hint of things to come. Church last week managed...
Thirty Days. Continental began studying methods for insuring the health of the aged in the early 1950s, learned that the 65-and-above group contract remarkably few new diseases. "If you're going to get an ulcer or hypertension or cancer," says Dr. Clement G. Martin, Continental's medical director, "you'll most likely get it between the ages of 18 and 55." Furthermore, some of the most prevalent ailments do not require extremely expensive hospital treatment. Continental found that 60% of the people 65 and over who become ill have a hospital confinement of 30 days...
...dream parish," says Father Clement H. Kern. "I'm so lucky. Almost every seminarian hopes to get a church like this, but there aren't very many of them left...