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Curtain Down. Ever since he told his people, in a New Year's speech 15 years ago, that he was not really "a living god," Hirohito has been playing constitutional monarch with mixed success. Once, common folk were forbidden to gaze directly at his face, and train conductors lowered the blinds if the Emperor's private coach was due to pass, lest some passenger catch an accidental glimpse of him. Now, wearing the embarrassed look of a man intruding, he visited every prefecture in the country, climbing down mine shafts, trudging through factories, talking to peasants in paddyfields...
When a dancer does well, she provokes a quiet bombardment of dollar bills-although the Manhattan clubs prohibit the more cosmopolitan practice of slipping the tips into the dancers' costumes. With tips, the girls average between $150 and $200 a week, depending on basic salary. Although they are forbidden to sit with the customers, the dancers are sometimes proffered drinks, and most of them can bolt one down in mid-shimmy...
Away from home, he began to enjoy minor heresies. He got good marks at the Academy from force of habit, but he was too busy trying (unsuccessfully) to make the varsity baseball team, too busy having a good time, to excel. He sneaked forbidden smokes, wore uniforms with well-concealed nonregulation pockets, eventually earned just about as many demerits as anyone in his class. Scholastically, he ranked in the middle brackets-breeding ground of most U.S. generals and admirals...
...unknown when he was brought out of retirement by army juniors to head their victorious junta. General Gursel, 66, is becoming Turkey's most popular figure. A simple and conservative sort, he has forbidden display of his picture alongside Ataturk's in government offices, rides about in an open Jeep through Menderes' rural strongholds, talking to the peasants almost as if they were his children...
...find that Russian students were awed by "our easy manner, our gaiety and our open debates." When the Russians started imitating Africans at Moscow University, down rattled the Iron Curtain. Africans were segregated, jazz records were banned, free debates were outlawed, dates with Russian girls were forbidden. A few Africans were even set upon and beaten...