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...Nobusuke's turn to follow his father's footsteps as a yoshi. A marriage was arranged for him with his cousin Yoshiko, the daughter of his father's brother. Although the marriage did not take place for another seven years (Yoshiko was only eleven at the time), Nobusuke resumed his father's name of Kishi and was stricken from the Sato family register...
...government was headed by the Liberal Party of Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, whose daughter was married to a cousin of Kishi's. The Secretary-General of the Cabinet was Kishi's own brother, Eisaku Sato. Prospects seemed inviting, but there was nothing Kishi could do until he was "de-purged" in 1952. He spent the time working at his industrial jobs and in profitably cultivating his wide acquaintance among businessmen...
...Cousins (Films-Around-the-World), another immensely popular picture produced by the New Wave, is a fairly clever, mildly depressing study of France's I-got-it-beat generation. Made for $160,000 by a 27-year-old film critic named Claude Chabrol, the film offers a switch on the story of the city mouse (Jean-Claude Brialy) and the country mouse (Gérard Blain). In this case the city mouse is really a rat. Enrolled in law school, he seldom attends classes, spends his time shacking up with "can't-say-no girls," arranging for abortions...
...baron has been taking time-off from his three souvenir shops to run his Olympic candidates out to the ski slopes in his Studebaker. The top candidates for the three-man team are all named Kindle: Silvan Kindle, 23; his third cousin Hermann Kindle, 24; and Gebhard Kindle, 21, no kin. The Kindle Kinder train hard. Liechtenstein has no ski lifts; the husky young Olympians must hike up the steep Alpine slopes on foot. All of them work in factories, ski only on weekends. "That's the Olympic idea," says Baron von Falz-Fein. "Do sports for your pleasure...
...Stanley Spencer, 68, British artist who transformed the simple sights of his home town of Cookham into the great events of the Bible in paintings of flat, muted colors ("I saw many burning bushes in Cookham"), borrowed the faces of his neighbors for Biblical characters, and of his cousin, a milkmaid, for the Virgin Mary; in Taplow, England...