Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...establishing an agency to prepare changes in the constitution along some recommended lines: ¶ Abandonment of MacArthur's proud clause proscribing war (intended to make Japan the "Switzerland of Asia") to permit Japanese rearming, with safeguards against return of the old military clique. ¶ An upgrading of the Emperor from the purely honorary position ("symbol of the state") he now holds to a position somewhere below the divinity ("sacred and inviolable") he once enjoyed. ¶ A partial return to appointment rather than election of village chiefs and members of the Upper House...
...Coca-Cola bottling plant at Birmingham: "I could tell you a whole lot about it, but I'd just rather not say anything." Says an official of the Kraft Foods Co. (which was criticized for sponsoring a television showing of Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones'): "If you start fighting, you just give these idiots a dignity they don't deserve...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto, with Walter Gieseking...
...general slaughter in central Annam following Emperor Bao Dai's surrender to the Communists back in 1945, Diem's brother Ngo Dinh Khoi and his eldest son were dragged out of their home and whisked away in a green Citroen to be shot near the village of Co Bi in the high, jagged mountains of the Chaine Annamatique. "I remember my brother Khoi," says Diem, who fled into hiding at the time. "He was the brightest son of our family of twelve, a tall, handsome man. The welfare of the people was his life's work...
...under the name of a relative, the Earl of Westmeath. Nugent further explained that his family's patriotism was the cause of all the trouble. An Irish ancestor named Walter Nugent served with other relatives in the Austrian army and was made Baron Nugent of Clonlost by the Emperor Franz Josef in 1859. When the first baron's descendants returned to England, the title was authenticated by a royal warrant signed by Britain's Edward VII in 1908. But with the advent of World War I, Nugent's grand-uncle-like many other holders of Teutonic...