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Equal suffrage was introduced, and the voting age was reduced from 25 to 20. In April 1946, SCAP staged a free election. Three-fourths of the 36 million registrants voted. MacArthur's critics feared that the elections would be premature, that the people would not turn out to vote, or that extremists, right or left, would win too much power. But the vast majority of seats went to moderates...
...more than the enmity or forgiveness of those peoples. So long as large areas of those countries were Communist battlefields, there would be little chance of restoring trade. Japan might (for a while) continue to subsist on U.S. doles, a prostrate ward. But its long-range prospects as a free nation would be hopeless...
...Molina got down to the business which brought him to the U.S.: military materiel for Argentina. His list included almost everything in the weapons catalogue, with a total value of about half a billion dollars. Army officials explained to him that U.S. munitions factories, unlike those in Argentina, are free to make private contracts with foreign customers (although the U.S. Government has to grant export licenses), that if Argentina had the money, it could buy arms wherever it could find them. The Army itself could do nothing for him until Congress passes the long pigeonholed Inter-American Military Cooperation bill...
...staff includes a psychiatrist and two psychologists, but problem kids are rare. Every boy learns to dance and to read music. And women teachers take them to restaurants to learn all about dining out, French menus and conversation with girls. Hummers wear no special uniform; each boy's free G.I. (Girard Issue) is two new tailor-made suits a year...
Meteor Measuring. B295 cannot fly above the effective top of the atmosphere, and rockets, so far, have not stayed up long enough to be thoroughly bombarded by free-striking cosmic rays. But meteors have been cruising through space without atmospheric protection for millions, perhaps billions, of years. If examined soon after they hit the earth, they should show the worst that cosmic rays...