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...Osaka student began: "I like you, but your policies seem very narrow-minded." Hatoyama laughed uneasily: "But I'm not as arrogant as Yoshida, eh?" A Tokyo girl clerk adjured him: "Hatoyama-san, please be consistent in your austerity program." Ichiro Hatoyama replied: "I intend to be so." Then a Tokyo worker plunged headlong into the intricacies of trade with Red China and Formosa. Easily, as if the question involved no difficulties, Hatoyama answered the worker: "The Chinese Communists and Nationalists are both good, independent nations. Both are our good neighbors. I want to establish relations with Russia...
...eight performers (a chemistry teacher, a solicitor's clerk, a printer, a policeman, an Oxford undergraduate, a divinity teacher, a market gardener and a physicist) ate a big predawn breakfast at the King's Head Hotel and, at 4 a.m., climbed the squat red-brick campanile of Taylor's bell foundry. Inside the ringing chamber, the eight ringers strapped a variety of containers to their legs, ranging from hot water bags to bicycle bottles (also known in the U.S. as "motormen's pals"). On shelves around them was a selection of food-chocolate, oranges, bananas, grapes...
...FALL OF A TITAN, by Igor Gouzenko. An indictment of the Soviet system in the form of a novel by the Russian code clerk who exposed his country's atomic espionage net in Canada and the U.S. An important and frequently exciting exposure of Communist ruthlessness and what it does to those it touches...
...nearby Katiu. True to his proud tradition, the frigate took off, but in the wrong direction. Days later, just as the natives were coming out of church, he swooped into a three-point landing on New Zealand's Rakahanga island, a full 1,000 miles away. A government clerk spotted the note clipped to the wing, and relieved the errant frigate of his burden. It took a telegram, many more days, a set of stamps, two airplane trips, a boat trip and the combined efforts of both the New Zealand and French postal systems to undo the work...
...president, the council unanimously elected the Stated Clerk (chief executive officer) of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Dr. Eugene Carson Blake. Hefty six-footer Blake, 48, played guard for Princeton in 1926 and 1927, ended on the All-East football list and graduated with honors in philosophy. After a missionary teaching year at Lahore, India, he studied at Edinburgh and went to Princeton Theological Seminary. He was assistant pastor in Manhattan, held parishes in Albany, N.Y., and Pasadena, Calif., and is considered by many to be the outstanding U.S. clergyman under 50, an expert in both theology and diplomacy...