Word: iii
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...Throne. With this anachronism blasted, the building of a new Japan could proceed with some chance of success. When and if the Japanese revise their constitution, they will not stumble over Article III, which says that "the Emperor is sacred and inviolable." In denying his godhead, Hirohito appeared to be making a very human effort to lead the way in constitution revision...
...silence of the court could mean only one thing: guilty. On one of the two counts, "culpable inefficiency" (failure to abandon ship promptly) in the torpedoing of his ship, the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the court had acquitted Captain Charles B. McVay III, U.S.N. But the court's silence on the charge of "negligence" (in his failure to zigzag his ship) meant that on that count the court had found McVay guilty. Last week, as the Navy prepared to review its court's findings, McVay faced a bleak future...
Among the silent spectators in the silent courtroom was a woman whose only son had been lost in the sinking of the heavy cruiser Indianapolis in the Philippine Sea last July 30. Another woman who listened was the wife of Captain Charles Butler McVay III, captain of the Indianapolis. McVay had spent four days bobbing in the oil-covered, sun-seared Philippine Sea after the "Indy" went down. It was McVay who was now on trial, charged with negligence and inefficiency in the loss of his ship. He also sat there, listening to the man who had humiliated...
...become so shabby that it was torn down and replaced by the present Palmer House III. Usually a money-maker (except in 1930 and 1931), the Palmer House has lately roused complaints among Chicagoans that it suffers from the pains of age, a crochety management and decrepit service. (One resident used to wire his wife from his office because he said he could not reach her by phone through the hotel switchboard...
...must do, cries Cousins, is to create a world superstate. He cites the example of the 13 American colonies, which Benjamin Franklin said, must hang together or they would all hang separately. The nations which survived World War II must hang together or face annihilation in World War III...