Word: emperor
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While Ford was touring the Midwest, law-enforcement authorities were trying to run down a spate of new reports about potential assassins. One mysterious phone call warned that three people were driving from Montreal in a blue station wagon to kill Ford and the visiting Emperor Hirohito (see page...
Walking slowly and carefully down the flight of steps from the Japan Air Lines DC-8, he twice waved graciously to the small crowd of welcomers. On his first visit to the U.S., at the age of 74, Emperor Hirohito of Japan was clearly determined to do everything right...
...begin their two-week tour, the Emperor and Empress Nagako were driven to the re-created colonial village of Williamsburg, Va. There Hirohito rode in an open carriage to the House of Burgesses, and like thousands of tourists before him, fed the ducks on the grounds of the Williamsburg Inn. He also found time to smooth over a troublesome incident. He dispatched a Japanese official to nearby Norfolk to lay a wreath on the grave of General Douglas MacArthur, the commander whose forces had defeated Japan but who had allowed Hirohito to keep his title. The gesture was made...
...Thursday morning, the Emperor and Empress journeyed to Washington by limousine to meet the President. The grounds of the White House were packed for the occasion by an unusually large crowd of 2,000 spectators, plus a 300-man Japanese press corps that could match its American counterpart in competitiveness. Shortly before the royal couple were due to arrive, a small red airplane suddenly appeared startlingly close to the White House. It was towing a banner, hooked up backwards, that read: EMPEROR HIROHITO, PLEASE SAVE OUR WHALES. (It later turned out that the flight was sponsored by the Animal Welfare...
Before he left on his historic journey to the U.S., Emperor Hirohito last week received TIME Bureau Chief William Stewart for an interview. The scene: the pink-carpeted Shakkyo-no-ma ("Stone-bridge") room in the Imperial Palace, which the Emperor uses as an audience chamber. His main points...