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With Japan's increasing mimicry of the U.S., let us pray that this is not an impetus for the dissolution of traditionally strong Japanese familial bonds. It would be a pathetic thing indeed if American-style marriages led to a proportionate number of American-style divorces...
...Impetus for any solution will evidently have to come from London, rather than from the settlers or the nationalists. The suggested establishment of a Parliamentary Commission is a valuable step, for by arriving at a decision before the scheduled revision date of 1960, it would prevent the outcome from being a political result of the forthcoming British election, as now seems to be the danger...
Hypos & Photos. The current Missouri flurry got its impetus two football seasons ago, when eight Kansas City high-school students piled into two jalopies and roared off to see a game in Oklahoma City. Local teen-agers showed them how to extract the amphetamine from a Valo inhaler and inject it with a hypodermic needle. (Oldfashioned ways of getting the kick by chewing the cartridge or drinking beer in which it had been swished around were no longer popular, because Pfeiffer had added a bitter, nauseating chemical.) The venturesome eight had a ball -and spread the craze back home...
...earnest hopes and will strive to accelerate the building of socialism and to realize mankind's noblest ideal-Communism-in our generation and by our own hands." To millions of hand-blistered Chinese students, the last phrase must ring with ironic accuracy. For much of the impetus in China's "Year of the Leap" (TIME, Dec. 1) has come from daily sessions of mind and muscle-numbing physical labor by the nation's students, who work before and after classes and often during class hours as well...
Most of the Corinths were done in the Europe of the early twenties. Shimizu, working in the America of the fifties, will have an even greater struggle with form because exalted amorphousness abounds in our day. The impetus, if it is to come, must come from within. Shimizu has the temperment and we shall all be fortunate if he succeeds...