Word: diets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music-loving Earl of Harewood. For the dinner, Katya finally chose that staple of feminine fashion, "the little black dress" (mascara, no lipstick or jewels). "Our ambition," she said, "is to become even more elegant than you." How had she reduced? "Tennis, the secret of a good figure. Diet? I never diet. I eat everything." With that, she flew back to Moscow, where the knowing party climbers hang on her every word, explaining: "Whatever Furtseva says, Khrushchev means...
...bill sought merely to punish demonstrators who provoked violence or invaded official quarters, such as the Diet grounds and the Prime Minister's residence. But prodded by the powerful Sohyo trade union combine, the Socialist opposition soon was demanding that only rightist demonstrators be curbed. For weeks Ikeda tried to work out a compromise. Finally, Ikeda lost patience and forced the bill to a vote in the lower house. In Japan, this is described as resorting to "the tyranny of the majority." Socialist delegates resorted to their fists, forcibly took over the rostrum. The Speaker riposted by conducting...
...last year's riots, were critical of the demonstrators; only the hard-core Sohyo unionists and Zengakuren students turned out. One crowd of 27,000 swarmed into Hibiya Park in downtown Tokyo to shout "Down with the Ikeda government!" Then the chanting demonstrators shuffled off toward the Diet, a few blocks away, inching their way along at ushi aruki (cow's pace) so that traffic was blocked for five hours. A column of screaming Zengakuren students stoned police guards lined up at the Diet, injuring scores. In Kyoto and Osaka, other student demonstrators staged week-long battles with...
...antiviolence bill from both the press and a clear majority of the Japanese people, the mobs were enough to frighten the Premier's own party followers in the upper house. They refused to vote for it, and Ikeda had to surrender. He shelved the measure until the Diet's next session later this year...
...individual the right to dictate to all what they will be allowed to see? I do not enjoy audience participation shows, etc., but see no reason to deny them to other people. I do enjoy informative or controversial programs, but not as a steady diet-there are times when all of us would prefer to be entertained and not challenged mentally. If I want Mr. Minow to twirl the dial on my set, I'll issue an invitation...