Word: lunch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...particularly of the U.S., has created a striking duality in the lives of Tokyo's plain people. They wear Western clothes to work, slip into cool kimonos or yukata at home. They drink coffee or eat popsicles at midmorning, have curried rice, raw fish or veal cutlet for lunch, go home to green tea, rice, seaweed, lily bulb, lotus root and bean curd. They go to see Marilyn Monroe at the cinema one night, follow this up (finances permitting) with long excursions to lengthy and painstakingly stylized classic Japanese Kabuki or No dramas...
...feed the public hunger for new pop names, U.S. record makers flail the musical undergrowth like beaters at a princely pheasant shoot, while fledgling pop singers break cover from behind lunch stands and dime-store counters, flutter out of laundry trucks and prizefighting rings. With luck, adroit promotion and an occasional touch of talent, some of the captured quarry end up making the kind of noises that set cash registers ajingle...
...Presided at a White House lunch for Pakistan's Premier Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (see box), gave his guest two hard-to-get Air Force helicopters (paid for by foreign aid) to be used in rescue work in flood-stricken East Pakistan...
...Road. In Maywood, Calif., police allowed an hour-long lunch to Louis H. Martinez, about to start a ten-day jail term for drunkenness, but the court upped his sentence to six months after he slipped into a bar, managed to get well boiled before police found and rejailed...
...were sold in Brunei). Farther along the river, a work crew of tattooed natives mix concrete for the pilings of a new bridge. There is money in their pockets for ice-cold Carlsberg beer, Lucky Strikes and Ronson cigarette lighters, all on sale at a roadside stand when the lunch break comes. And the future for each of them is made rosier by the promise of a pension of $7 a month for life for everyone in the nation over...