Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the time has passed when eyes were piously averted to avoid soiling Japan's Emperor Hirohito with a commoner's glance, the Emperor, 66, still enjoys nearly hermetic privacy within his wooded 200-acre estate in Tokyo. Now the hounds of modernism are baying over the palace...
Haider was born on a North Dakota wheat farm, moved with his family to California as a teenager. He got his chemical-engineering degree at Stanford University ('27), before long was working for a Jersey affiliate called Carter Oil, where one of his early laboratory assignments was to check...
With Nagasaki flattened by an A-bomb (code-named "Fat Man"), Emperor Hirohito gathered his ministers in an underground shelter and asked them to sue for peace. Such intervention by the Emperor was extraordinary, and, since Hirohito was believed to be divine, his request was also presumably a commandment from...
THE IMPERIAL COLLECTION OF AUDUBON ANIMALS edited with new text by Victor E. Cuhalane. 307 pages. Hammond. $19.95.
Finally, Prime Minister Eisaku Sato entered the controversy, announced he would be happy to see the Imperial moved "in part or entirely" to Meiji Village near Nagoya, a sort of Japanese Williamsburg. Only two days before demolition was to begin last week, Owner Inumaru met with representatives from the village...