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...Girard a three-year suspended sentence). Another notable MacArthur victory over the Pentagon was his success in securing a reduction of U.S. forces in Japan from some 100,000 to about 50,000. His key play for a new era in U.S.-Japanese relations began when he started to hammer out with the Japanese Foreign Office a revised Security Treaty...
...enough to finance his own expeditions, and he can exist for months at a stretch in the Sierra. His towering pack makes him self-sufficient. Not only does it contain such essentials as dehydrated food and a three-quarter ax, but also shoe nails and a cobbler's hammer, material to patch his pants, cameras, prepared breading mix for frying fish, and, to while away the twilight hours, copies of such classics as Cervantes in Spanish and Moliere in French. Says a Sierra guide: "We call him the pack that walks like...
...very charming at first, but less so when Decca and Boud (big, "sullen," "baleful" Unity) get past the hair-pulling stage and make the big world their playroom. Boud took to scratching swastikas on the window (she had a diamond, of course), and Decca just naturally scratched hammer-and-sickles over them...
...fascism." explained one demonstrator vaguely. Girls shouting "Yankee go home" were shocked at the very suggestion that they were anti-American. Americans watching the demonstrations were never molested, and one "angry" crowd politely waited while a flustered marine guard finally got the embassy gates locked before surging forward to hammer at the portals. The crowds were really shouting in support of the Communist-fueled theme that Japan, by permitting U.S. air bases and rocket stations on its soil, was "at tracting the lightning" of Russian retaliation in a world conflict...
...reported by his press secretary to be "greatly shocked" by the Stevenson speech. The Republican National Committee charged that Stevenson had fallen "like a ton of bricks for the Khrushchev line." Franklin Roosevelt's onetime campaign manager, Jim Farley, 71, angrily accused Stevenson of trying "to sledge hammer and crowbar another disastrous nomination for himself as the apostle of appeasement...