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Opening the Diet last week, frock-coated Emperor Hirohito pleaded for taibo seikatsu-austerity living. Two days later, foxy old Premier Shigeru Yoshida explained what the austerity is for: to check Japan's ominous inflation, and, by stern cuts in government civil spending, to make room in Yoshida's trillion-yen ($2,780,000,000) budget for Japan's burgeoning rearmament...
Miss Body, whose off-stage name is Mary Goodneighbor, stated last night: "Any talk about my performance being immoral is ridiculous. Why, I wear 60 yards of orchid tulle in the skirt of my dancing frock alone and 35 pounds of bugle beading on the stole and bustle...
Partly because their specialty is relatively new and fast gaining in importance, the anesthesiologists have none of the stuffy dignity of the oldtime, frock-coated specialist. They talk freely and colloquially about their work, often lapsing into unprofessional profanity. They have something good and they know...
...lifted a finger. Though his flight had reflected his panic, it also served to precipitate the crisis and thereby, in the end, had proved beneficial. For the people had shown more faith in him and in the throne he occupied than he himself suspected. Premier Zahedi and the entire frock-coated diplomatic corps were at the airport to greet...
...cutthroats gawked like sentimental sidewalk watchers at the ceremony in their prison courtyard. Pretty Maria de Jesus Torres Martinez, 28, had come there to be married to a frog-faced murderer named Jose Ortiz Munoz, called El Sapo (The Bullfrog) by his fellow inmates. Demure in a green frock and red shoes, Maria de Jesus mooned over El Sapo, natty in a clean striped uniform, as he listened with rapt attention to the district judge...