Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pleased as punch with this apparent propaganda triumph, Okinawa's American rulers failed to recall the extreme politeness required of a guest by Japanese etiquette. This oversight was sharply brought to their attention last week when Parliamentarian Takaoka issued a public report on the visit. Among his recommendations: ¶ Americans should turn over civil administration of Okinawa to Japan. ¶ Okinawans should be allowed to fly the Japanese flag. ¶ Unless it would "inconvenience" U.S. strategists, all troops on Okinawa should be moved to the uninhabited north end of the island...
...comeback plans twelve hours a day, openly confers with visiting plotters. In his off moments, he strolls through a nearby park or motors through the countryside with his roommates, a blonde actress named Isabelita Martinez, a black poodle named Canela, and a white poodle named Picha. A frequent guest is Laureano Vallenilla Lanz, Venezuelan Minister of the Interior...
Boston Symphony (Mon. 8:05 p.m., NBC). Guest Conductor: Jean Martinon...
...kept in another garage.) There stay the Compound's rotating bodyguards, constantly on hand because Beck is obsessed with the notion that an unknown "they" are trying to kidnap Dave Beck Jr., a walloping 35-year-old 210-pounder. "If you were out here alone," Beck tells his guest, "you'd be pinned back up against the wall...
Some of Diamond's colleagues also heard from last week: ¶J Alan Hovhaness' Easter Cantata got its first New York concert performance by the National Orchestral Association under Guest Conductor Newell Jenkins. Mystically described by Armenian-descended Composer Hovhaness ("The vocal element ... is the sun; the other sounds are the planets"), the work moved with melodic simplicity, derived its main effects from the repetitive. Oriental-sounding accompaniment which has helped to distinguish Hovhaness' output from more technique-tortured works of his contemporaries. ¶J Italian Composer Riccardo Malipiero's 45-minute Sinfonia Cantata was premiered...