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Aboard the Japanese freighter Oshima Maru, which left Yokohama last week, were two stone garden lanterns on their way to Hyannisport, Mass. The lanterns -one a three-ton, nine-foot model called kasuga, the other a one-ton, four-footer called yukimi ("snow-viewing" lantern)-are a present for President Kennedy from Professor Gunji Honoso, silver-haired international law expert at Tokyo's Aoyama Gakuin University, who got to know the President back in the days when Kennedy was a junketing Senator. Cost of both lanterns...
...Stone lanterns, part of the current boom in all things Japanese, are popping up like granite mushrooms in thousands of U.S. gardens, patios and motel parking areas. The average small lantern, standing three feet high, costs only about $100, including crating and handling. So great is the demand that Japanese stonemasons, a traditionally unhurried lot and given to meditative puffs on bamboo pipes between mallet whacks, have a tremendous backlog of orders piling up. Japan is exporting an average of 2,000 lanterns a month, most of them to the U.S. Many U.S. tourists buy them at Ishikatsu, Tokyo...
...lives in Mexico and writes masterly proletarian novels and short stories, the legend has been transformed by two gifted Mexicans, Director Roberto Gavaldon and Cameraman Gabriel Figueroa, into a fragile but profound little picture that abounds and delights in the black-and-white magic of the magic lantern...
...rich rice fields stretch mile after placid mile across rural Malaya. In the bustling cities, where a new school or factory opens almost daily, the economy booms along quietly. Last week, as the Federation of Malaya celebrated the fourth anniversary of independence, the tranquillity was briefly broken by countrywide lantern processions, garden parties and a parade of 24,000 schoolchildren at Kuala Lumpur's cavernous Merdeka (Independence) Stadium. Said Malaya's pragmatic Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman, 58: "We can look back on these past four years of freedom with a genuine feeling of achievement and success...
...there wi' yer bluidy magic lantern," thundered Scotland's late golfing great, Andra Kirkaldy, when a cameraman dared set foot on the sacred Old Course at St. Andrews at the turn of the century. Had Kirkaldy been around St. Andrews last week, he probably would have heaved his clubs into the North Sea. Heavy tractors trundled television cameras, cables and lights all over the course. Cameramen swarmed over roughs and fairways, technicians and officials thronged the greens, and close to 5,000 Scots followed the proceedings with alternating amusement and dismay. For an 18-hole golf match between...