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...Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi is a descendant of the swaggering but practical men of Choshu. Less than a century ago his clansmen enthusiastically followed the Emperor's orders by opening fire on all foreign ships passing through Shimonoseki Strait, the narrow western entrance to the lovely Inland Sea. Retaliation came from a combined British, French, Dutch and U.S. fleet, which blew the Choshu batteries skyhigh, put ashore a landing party to seize the forts, and collected an indemnity of $3,000,000.-Impressed, the Choshu leaders fraternized with the Western officers, begged technical advice and sought...
Nobusuke was born in Yamaguchi, a pleasant city above the Inland Sea, on Nov. 23, 1896. From childhood he had drummed into him the glories of the Sato family, the Choshu clan and the warrior class. Aristocratic Moyo Sato constantly reminded her son that their ancestors had been charged by the Emperor with guarding Shimonoseki Strait, the gateway to the Inland Sea. Her uncle was a major general who founded the Japanese cavalry; her brothers and sisters married into top families, including the Matsuokas and Yo-shidas. "Never forget you are a samurai," she said. "Never take second place...
...During the postwar years, hourly labor costs in the steel industry climbed by an average of 8% a year. As the steel industry viewed it, the shift from 8% a year to 3.5% a year was progress of a sort. "The settlement is neither black nor white," said Inland Steel's Board Chairman Joseph Block. "It's grey." With a grey settlement that postponed the first wage boost until next December, with their 1959 ledgers showing hefty profits despite the strike, and with demand for steel running heavy enough to assure high output during 1960, the steel companies...
...body and chunks of fuselage washed in from the ocean; other bodies were scattered over 16 miles to the point where the forward section crashed in a plowed field near the hamlet of Bolivia, N.C., 15 miles inland. Pilot Dale Southard, 46, a World War II Military Air Transport Service veteran, evidently had some warning of trouble, for some passengers were wearing life jackets. But he made no emergency radio calls. All signs indicated that he was heading back toward Wilmington, fighting desperately to hold his plane on course as it lost altitude and tore itself apart. Some experts guessed...
Steel. Joseph L. Block, chairman of Inland Steel, predicted that, barring a new strike, the nation's mills will pour 70 million ingot tons in the first half, 130 million during the whole year, up from 92 million in 1959 and above the alltime high of 117 million...