Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...base and personally drove over to Tokyo's Tachikawa Airport to put the G.I.s back in their seats and to chew out Colonel Platt (TIME, April 13). As punishment for having commandeered six precious seats for himself, his wife and four children-all bound for a Hawaiian holiday-Platt was bounced out of his job as commander of the MATS terminal at Tachikawa and fined $340. Coincidence: the fine covered (with $7 to spare) the cost of 1,650 gallons of gasoline that the plane jettisoned before it landed back at Tokyo...
...Holiday & Amnesty. The day's ordeal had only just begun. The prince retired to change into white tie and tails and to grab a bite or two of a ham sandwich. Michi had her hair washed and reset, and, over a white and gold Western dress, for the first time donned the pearl-studded, golden Order of the Sacred Crown. At 2 p.m. the young couple officially reported the marriage to the Emperor and Empress. After exchanging cups of sake and going through the ritual of symbolic eating, the prince and his bride stepped into a rust-colored carriage...
...holiday had been declared, amnesty had been granted to 100,000 prisoners, and an estimated 10,000 other young couples also got married. But there was at least one Japanese who resented the festive occasion. As the bridal entourage rolled down one of Tokyo's main streets, a 19-year-old boy threw a stone at the couple. When he missed, he tried to climb inside the carriage. As Michiko took refuge across Akihito's lap, two liveried footmen shoved the youth aside; half a dozen policemen knocked him to the ground and then led him away...
...onetime Berlin lawyer who now teaches piano, Previn arrived in the U.S. when he was nine, studied piano in high school, was hired, even before he graduated, by M-G-M to arrange the boogie-woogie pieces for Jose Iturbi's Holiday in Mexico. Lately, Previn has been feeling the burdens of age, sharpened by a desire to compose more serious music: "You can't write it in Hollywood. I've had ten years there, and I don't want to look back at myself on my 50th birthday and know I haven't tried...
...Carloadings rose 14.3% over last year for the week ending April 4, but dropped slightly from the preceding week because of a coalfield holiday...