Word: diets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lunch, unpacking, a baseball doubleheader, and Humanities and Science tours attracted most. Some preferred the first of four symposiums and found a keen oratorical show. Cocktails then became '29's diet, absorption bubbling on into the night...
Wallowing in the imported delights of full democracy, the lower house of the Japanese Diet last week staged the roughest and most disgraceful brawl in the two years since Japan regained her sovereignty. For the first time in the Diet's 64-year history, Tokyo's metropolitan police were called to restore order. In the eye of the storm, yet seemingly untouched by it, was astute, crusty and supremely confident Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, 75, whose friends and admirers call him the ablest and most important figure in today's Japan, and whose foes call...
Yoshida had been scheduled to leave Japan last week for the U.S., seeking "loans and investments" to aid the nation's hard-pressed economy. At the last minute, because of the riot in the Diet, Yoshida had to cancel all plans, postponed his trip for several weeks, perhaps months...
...Work All Night." Yoshida's conservative coalition (his own Liberals and Mamoru Shigemitsu's Progressives) easily musters a majority, a fact which drives his Socialist opposition into foaming rages. At lunch one day last week, Yoshida had more than his usual two Martinis. Afterward in the Diet, the sleepy-lidded Prime Minister appeared to doze. "Aha!" cried a Socialist. "We work all night on important legislation and the Prime Minister gets drunk and passes out in the Diet...
...police bill had already passed the lower house, and Yoshida had the votes to pass it in the upper house as well; but before that could happen, the lower house had to vote a two-day extension of the Diet session. To prevent this, a posse of Socialist members corralled Speaker Yasujiro Tsutsumi in a corner of the chamber, thus kept him from ascending to the chair. A beefy judo expert, Tsutsumi broke through the Socialist ranks and sought refuge in a caucus room...