Word: harumi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Details. The government's eagerness to raise Ireland's "Green Curtain," as Lemass calls it, reflects a growing cosmopolitanism in the universities and population centers. The Irish have made executives and technicians from more than a dozen countries resoundingly welcome. They cheered mightily for Schoolgirl Harumi Suzuki, eight-year-old daughter of a Japanese plant manager at Shannon, when she carried off first and third prizes for Irish poetry and Gaelic recitation. Young Ireland's horizons are being broadened by the foreign students who have been flocking to Irish universities, where they comprise nearly 17% of total...
...ostensible reason for Mikoyan's visit was to open the Soviet Trade Fair in Tokyo's huge, domed exhibition hall on the Harumi waterfront. The fair was jammed with 9,000 examples of Soviet products, from tractors to Armenian rugs (cooed Armenia-born Mikoyan: "My mother used to make such rugs"). It was also outfitted with an artless array of Soviet propaganda, from pictures of Spacemen Gagarin and Titov to such slogans as "Soviet Union takes the lead in banning nuclear weapons," and "Hiroshima must not be repeated." Despite all this, the most popular spot...