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This--a pair of parentheses--to mark the single greatest crusade in American history? To commemorate the largest naval battle ever (Leyte Gulf), the largest amphibious landing ever (Normandy)? To mark the most shocking attack on (Pearl Harbor) and the most shocking attack by (Hiroshima) the U.S.? To memorialize what was not just America's finest hour but, in many ways, America's most important hour, an event whose revolutionary effect on American life and society, on everything from atomic science and aviation to race relations and gender roles, is acutely felt to this...
DIED. TOMOYUKI TANAKA, 86, Godzilla godfather; in Tokyo. He was head of Toho Films in 1956 when, with director Ishiro Honda, he dreamed up the city-stomping monster. The toothy marauder, initially created to express horror at the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, starred in 22 films,a Japanese Jurassic Park unto himself...
...teams covet Japanese pitchers. There are two in the Mets camp, and one of them, left-handed reliever Takashi Kashiwada, has a chance of making the team. The Boston Red Sox are saving a spot in the bullpen for Robinson Checo, a Dominican who pitched last year for the Hiroshima Carp...
...German soldier and an Austrian Catholic bishop, imitating the Chinese monkeys that see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. And the ever alert Salvador Dali managed to include a number of proto-Pop American images in his pictures when working in the U.S. Painted just after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, his Melancholy Atomic and Uranic Idyll, 1945, has a bomber in it as well as the first Yank baseball player to turn up in a Surrealist picture...
...more political note, French president Jacques Chirac was awarded the peace prize for "commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima with atomic bomb tests in the Pacific." Chirac, who was not present at the event, was congratulated by Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel in an audio message played at the ceremony...