Word: diets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Japanese defense spending from 1.3% of the gross national product to 2% (the U.S. spends nearly 9% of its G.N.P. on defense). That would amount to $1.1 billion and greatly increase both the materiel and the mobility of the armed forces. Matsuno's bill is currently before the Diet, and it has Premier Sato's wholehearted backing. "The policy of Communist China denies peaceful coexistence," Sato said recently in rebuttal to defense critics. "It is a threat enough without being armed with nuclear weapons. With them, China's threat to Japanese security is real...
...Shoehorn for His Hat. Clay detailed his diet for newsmen ("Muslim bean soup, Eee-gyptian brown rice, Arabian string beans"), refused to pose for photographs standing alongside the shorter (by 2½ in.) and lighter (by 14 Ibs.) Patterson. "If I did," he said, "nobody would come to see the fight...
...insatiable craving for improved goods and services, more eagerly embrace new products than any other people. Their willingness to buy almost anything that will amuse, uplift, beautify or offer convenience is demonstrated by the marketplace successes of such things as textured stockings, the electric carving knife, skate boards, diet cola, shoe-shining machines and speed-reading courses. Getting backers for a sound idea is no real problem; credit is cheaper (average interest rate: 5%) and bankers more eager to lend in the U.S. than in any other major nation...
...marchers were protesting the Japan-South Korea Normalization Treaty, ratified by banzai vote in the Diet a week earlier when Premier Eisaku Sato's Liberal Democratic floor managers bulldozed the opposition Socialists with a post-midnight roll call. Japan's leftists claim that the treaty will somehow lead to Japanese involvement in the Viet...
Conditions for Savagery. With delaying tactics in the Diet and demonstrations in the streets, the leftists hoped to paralyze the government and pull down Sato just as they had his brother, ex-Premier Nobusuke Kishi, after the 1960 Japan-U.S. Security Treaty was signed. No such luck, for this time the Japanese public simply was not responding to the leftists' highly indignant cries. For one thing, it was all too obvious that the treaty with Korea, which restores relations between the Asian neighbors for the first time since World War II, has no military clauses. Moreover, the conditions...