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...early March on Southern California's Japanese-language TV. Some Japanese Americans see the program as a distortion of themselves and a threat to their own fortunes in the U.S. Most of the criticism has come from the 32,000-member Japanese American Citizens League, the oldest and largest Japanese civil rights group in the U.S. Sanga Moyu portrays a dilemma of divided patriotism that most Japanese Americans say does not exist. "There are no torn loyalties," says J.A.C.L. National Director Ron Wakabayashi. "It gives a completely wrong impression." Adds Floyd Shimomura, the organization's president, "We spent...
...foundation awarded 105 scholarships this year, the largest number ever, for which 45 Harvard students applied...
...Robinson, while continuing to do plays. But the Astoria movie studio eventually faded away, and Colbert left the Big Apple for Hollywood glory. Last week the French-born actress was back in Queens for a day at the revamped Kaufman Astoria studio, where a renovated building with the largest sound stage outside Hollywood was named in her honor. "I feel sensational and really a little sentimental," said Colbert, who looked both. Indeed, it was hard to say which of her selves was lovelier as she delightedly encountered a cardboard cutout from her film Cleopatra, which she made...
...march. Some of them were merely tokens of motion, but considered together, they amount at least to an interesting procession of symbols. The first black American astronaut went into space. For the first time a black was crowned Miss America. Blacks now are the mayors of four of the largest American cities: Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and Detroit. Congress proclaimed a national holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr., and a conservative Republican President endorsed the idea...
...they see other blacks become mayors of the largest cities, become astronauts, become presidential candidates, become Miss Americas and, more to the point, become doctors and scientists and lawyers and pilots and corporate presidents-become successes-then young blacks will begin to comprehend their own possibilities and honor them with work...