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...Indians of the Five Nations (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca) were called Iroquois by the French because they allegedly closed conversations with the words hiro ("I have spoken") and koué ("with joy" or "with sorrow," depending on the tone of voice used...
...took the Emperor's children to give the monarchy back its common touch. Crown Prince Akihito married the pretty and lively commoner, Michiko, and soon sired Prince Hiro, who was instantly Japan's favorite baby. Hirohito's daughter, Princess Suga, wed a commoner bank clerk, now whips around town shopping in her Japanese-made Cedric. Though traditionalists were horrified, the two girls became more popular than movie stars. One magazine, Ladies' Own, ran a feature story on one or the other of them every week last year but two. On an extensive good-will tour abroad...
Last week the party came apart. Accusing the left-wingers of being "proCommunist and anti-American while pretending to be neutralist," Right-Wing Leader Sue-hiro Nishio took 30 Socialist Diet members with him and set up a new "Democratic Socialist Party." Nishio is a coldly aloof onetime foundry foreman who organized one of Japan's first labor unions. He made it clear that his new party would have no time for "the proletarian revolution" and class war, would attempt to offer Japan's growing middle class as well as its laborers a non-Marxist alternative...