Word: kyoritsu
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While pious Japanese celebrated the rites of spring by making the traditional round of Buddhist temples and the tombs of their ancestors, thousands of Japanese "lowteen" girls in braids, pony tails, hula shirts, black slacks and white sweaters celebrated in their own way: jamming Tokyo's Kyoritsu Theater to swoon and scream at the pelvic pulsations of guitar-twanging "rockabilly" idols. Said a dazed stagehand last week, trying to describe the massed sound of their screams: "Like an auto suddenly braked at 100 m.p.h...
...live music. When it moved to the theaters. 50,000 caterwauling girls piled into the Nichigeki in seven days carrying box lunches of rice and seaweed. The Koma Theater drew bigger crowds with rockabilly than with the New York City Ballet. Four hours before the doors opened at the Kyoritsu teen-agers had formed in a queue three blocks long...
...prexy of Manhattan's Barnard College, Mrs. Millicent C. Mclntosh, presented a citation to one of her opposite numbers from the Orient, minute Mrs. Kaoru Hatoyama, wife of Japan's Premier and head of Kyoritsu Women's College. Kaoru Hatoyama was on her way home from Moscow, where her ailing husband got crumbs from the Kremlin table in signing a decade-delayed peace treaty with the Russians...
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