Word: ikeda
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Died. Hayato Ikeda, 65, Prime Minister of Japan from 1960 to 1964, a talented economist who as Vice-Minis ter and later Minister of Finance and International Trade guided Japan's postwar economic recovery almost continuously since 1947, pursuing his ex pansionist program as Prime Minister with a promise to double per capita income within ten years, until in 1961 Japan had the world's highest growth rate (18.9%) but also a record $1.5 billion trade deficit and the beginnings of a recession; of pneumonia, following surgery for throat cancer; in Tokyo...
...York Mets Manager Casey Stengel, in Manhattan, after an operation to repair his left hip, fractured when the Perfesser slipped while alighting from a taxi during the scheduled week-long celebration of his 75th birthday; former Japanese Premier Hayato Ikeda, 65, in Tokyo, with aftereffects from the radiation treatment used last November to rid him of the nonmalignant throat tumor that forced him to resign the premiership; Barry Goldwater, 56, in Phoenix, after a four-hour cervical laminectomy to repair an old injury to vertebrae in his neck...
...Grand Shrines, humbly to request the support of Shinto gods. These days he also goes to Washington. Off last week on Japan Air Lines' Flight No. 800 flew Premier Eisaku Sato, 63, for his first trip to the U.S. since he took over from ailing Hayato Ikeda two months...
...Japanese no longer dream of empire or of the tyrannical "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" that led them to war. But Japan wants gradually to free itself of its dependence on the U.S. and take a role in the free world's fight for peace. Thanks to Ikeda, it is already quietly giving $600 million a year in aid to underdeveloped nations, and this summer pledged more if necessary. It would like a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council. Its government has been considering offering Japanese troops as a permanent U.N. security force. It would like...
...commerce he became one of the foremost exponents of Japan's increased international involvement. Although his rival for the premiership, Ichiro Kono, won worldwide acclaim as the top organizer most responsible for the success of the Tokyo Olympics, Sato really had the inside track. He has been Ikeda's heir apparent for more than four years-ever since his elder brother, Nobusuke Kishi,* resigned in the wave of leftist riots that forced the cancellation of President Eisenhower's projected visit...