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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chauvinism Out. Of all the legacies of the postwar occupation, none has had a more ironic effect than U.S. efforts to democratize Japan's schools. Old, chauvinistic textbooks were discarded, traditional shushin (moral training) abolished, Japanese history drastically cut down. Today the primary schools (ages 6 to 12) completely ignore Japanese history; the junior high schools (12 to 15) give it only one year. Even worse: the little history that is taught largely follows the Communist line...
...stretching the priceless canvases so taut that "they were ready to explode." To fight the dry air, McEwen and his Rhodesian sculptress wife, Cecilia, night after night dashed between their .flat and the gallery to drape damp towels over the frames of the stretching masterpieces. When asked about the effect of this do-it-yourself humidifying on the canvases, McEwen had a ready answer: "Emergencies demand drastic measures. That was all we could do. Anyway we saved the day-or rather the nights...
...time had come. A battle of the ads had started over unsaturated v. saturated fats* and their connection, if any, with the amount of cholesterol in the human bloodstream and the prevalence of heart attacks. Though nutritionists and the American Heart Association itself (see MEDICINE) consider a cause-and-effect relationship between fats and heart disease far from proved, scientific doubts are not staying the admen...
...farmers who ask for supports.* Last year, in a further effort to hold down surpluses, Congress passed a soil-bank program to pay farm ers for taking acreage out of production. But the technological explosion makes such curbs futile. Last year, with strict acreage and marketing controls in effect, millions of acres in the soil bank and a severe drought pinching the Southwest, technology-armed U.S. farmers matched the biggest total harvest they had ever known. On land diverted from corn and wheat under acreage allotments, farmers bring in crops - barley, soybeans, sorghums - that compete with corn and wheat...
...ultimate contradiction, the Administration put into effect a support price lor corn grown outside the acreage limitation program, i.e., a guaranteed market of $1.25 a bushel for those who thumbed their noses at crop-restriction programs...