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...Angeles' James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre, 78, in a Rome hospital following his collapse from heat and fatigue during the Mass officially reopening the Vatican Council; New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, 75, recuperating on Cape Cod following a prostate operation; Japan's Premier Hayato Ikeda, 64, undergoing treatment at the National Cancer Institute in To kyo for a nonmalignant throat infection; Massachusetts' Senator Leverett Saltonstall, 72, recovering at his home in Dover from a torn te'ndon suffered in a fall at Boston's Logan Airport...
Tokyo's imaginative headline writers called it Okane no Saiten-the Festival of Money. Some Japanese authorities considered it more important than the Olympics in adding luster to Japan's image, and Prime Minister Ikeda came to speak to the opening session. When the International Monetary Fund met last week in Tokyo, the gathering in the elegant Hotel Okura was the greatest in the city's history, a financial Olympiad for 2,000 mental gymnasts from 102 nations...
Tokyo University averages nine job offers for each graduate, who is thus assured a place on the escalator that produces the nation's leaders; Premier Hayato Ikeda himself was a two-time ronin. Yet Tokyo now turns down four applicants for each one it accepts, and some ronin have been trying to get into that school for as much as eight years. Michio Nagai, a former visiting professor at Columbia who teaches sociology at Tokyo's Institute of Technology, proposes a law limiting the percentage of graduates that a company can hire from topflight Tokyo or Kyoto universities...
...fell short of victory in the closest party leadership election in Japan's postwar history. Ikeda emerged with 242 votes for the party presidency to 160 for Sato, 72 for Fujiyama. In a pithy acceptance speech of 55 seconds, Ikeda pledged to seek "greater cooperation for the purpose of solidifying our great party...
Square-jawed and obstinate, Ikeda decided that a third term was precisely what he needed to carry out some "unfinished business," although he never said exactly what that business might be. Two formidable rivals challenged him: 1) Eisaku Sato, 63, Minister of State under Ikeda and the obvious heir apparent, who attacked Ikeda's policy of "patience and tolerance," promised a dynamic regime that would fight for the return of the Kuril Islands from Russia and the Ryukyus (which include Okinawa) from the U.S.; and 2) Aiichiro Fujiyama, a silver-haired sugar baron who had served as former Prime...