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...barbers and taxi drivers." Both men - Eisaku Sato, 63, and Ichiro Kono, 66 - are even more warmly admired by rival factions of the ruling Conservative-Liberal Party. Last week they became hot rivals in a power struggle for the premiership of Japan. Their opportunity came when Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, who has been hospitalized for eight weeks with a throat tumor, handed in his resignation...
...moved back into the ranks of the world's industrial giants, their allies have been urging them to take a greater interest in foreign affairs - and especially to help out in aid to underdeveloped countries. In the success of the U.S. Peace Corps, Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda thought he saw his chance. Drafting plans for a Japanese copy, he dispatched officials to likely recipients in Southeast Asia and Africa. The Africans were interested enough, but when Ikeda's emissaries got closer to home, they ran head-on into memories of Japan's "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity...
...Angeles' James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre, 78, in a Rome hospital following his collapse from heat and fatigue during the Mass officially reopening the Vatican Council; New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, 75, recuperating on Cape Cod following a prostate operation; Japan's Premier Hayato Ikeda, 64, undergoing treatment at the National Cancer Institute in To kyo for a nonmalignant throat infection; Massachusetts' Senator Leverett Saltonstall, 72, recovering at his home in Dover from a torn te'ndon suffered in a fall at Boston's Logan Airport...
Tokyo University averages nine job offers for each graduate, who is thus assured a place on the escalator that produces the nation's leaders; Premier Hayato Ikeda himself was a two-time ronin. Yet Tokyo now turns down four applicants for each one it accepts, and some ronin have been trying to get into that school for as much as eight years. Michio Nagai, a former visiting professor at Columbia who teaches sociology at Tokyo's Institute of Technology, proposes a law limiting the percentage of graduates that a company can hire from topflight Tokyo or Kyoto universities...
After a couple of two-year terms of competent but colorless rule, Japan's Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, 64, was supposed by custom to make way for a successor. But when the ruling Liberal-Democratic Party met in Tokyo last week to choose a new president-and hence a new Prime Minister-Ikeda upset tradition by bidding for a third term...