Word: diets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mission. This week the Socialists were still boycotting the Diet, threatening to use force against any further legislation they disapprove of. Sohyo planned to pull out the railwaymen in a big protest strike. No one, probably not even they themselves, knows what the Zenga-kuren students will do next...
...mild June weather, people strolled around the Diet building: the young men in white shirts without jackets, the girls in their summer dresses. One solitary uniformed guard stood at the Diet gate where thousands fought last week, but no attempt was made to keep people...
...security treaty through Parliament, Asahi called the action "a dictatorship of the majority," provocatively suggested that violence was the only appropriate response. As the street mobs took the cue, increasingly virulent headlines demanded Kishi's resignation, concocted highly imaginative crises: PARTY LEADERS DESERT KISHI, and NATION'S DIET SYSTEM IS STANDING AT CROSS ROADS OF LIFE OR DEATH...
...young liberal "intellectuals" in Japanese newsrooms. Espousing no cause but that of full-throated antagonism to the party in power, these leftists not only incite to riot but often themselves join the rioters. Last week, when a part of the mob broke off to charge police guarding the Diet building, the sortie was led by a phalanx of screaming, pole-waving newsmen...
Skirting the Stars. Cosi, along with its rivals, has no real counterpart in U.S. journalism; it combines the fashion-consciousness of an especially demure Vogue with the love stories of a particularly sedate Redbook, the gossip columns of the less sensational U.S. movie magazines with the diet and beauty advice of a Ladies' Home Journal. Among its features is a weekly horoscope; Cosi skirts church objections with a cautionary footnote reminding readers that human will is independent of the stars...