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Three candidates for the succession, all hale and heartily conservative but not a great deal younger than Hatoyama, presented themselves: Nobusuke Kishi, 60, the party's crafty, pushing secretary-general; Mitsujiro Ishii, 67, its astute planning chairman; and Tanzan Ishibashi, 72, oaken-faced Minister of International Trade and Industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Toward the Rising Sun | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

At the half, mighty Michigan State had turned two recovered fumbles deep in Illinois territory into touchdowns, and led by 13-0. The capacity homecoming crowd at Champaign sat glumly waiting for Michigan State to turn on its second-half drive and send Illinois to its fourth straight defeat. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Test for the Leaders | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

In the waterless wastes of Bechuanaland there is no happier word than pula, which means first "rain," and hence almost everything else that is good. Last week in a tidy suburban cottage outside London, a handsome, long-legged law student gazed at his comely,wife of eight years and murmured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BECHUANALAND: Pula | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

Dollars to Democrats. When Bob Wagner, as a boy, was hobnobbing with New York's great and near-great, Jack Javits was a skinny-legged Jewish kid on Manhattan's Lower East Side ("In New York State," he says, "that is like being born in a log cabin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Threads of Power | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

This Way to Egress. In Fredericton, N.B., the Daily Gleaner printed an ad for the Bill Lynch Shows, a carnival, touting "An Extra Added Attraction, a close-up view of that strangest of all living creatures-the Two Legged Man."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 1, 1956 | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

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