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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JAPAN has enjoyed an extraordinary peace since the Second World War. We have never felt the sense of being threatened by external forces, mainly because of the United States nuclear defense umbrella. In this atmosphere a particular image or feeling about Communist China has grown up. Of course there has been a wide variety of opinion but, in the main, feeling about China has been good. To some Japanese, mostly Communists and socialists, China has been the potential champion of the progressive forces of the world. Furthermore, a sense of guilt for the criminal acts of the Japanese army towards...
...independent" schools' main problem, Sizer said, is that the salaries of public school teachers are rapidly increasing...
...main barrier to the transplantation of organs from one human being to another is the immune mechanism by which the body defends itself against invasion by foreign substances. The surgical techniques have been perfected for years, and in the case of kidneys at least, the supply of organs has been sufficient for a total of 1,200 transplants. But some 500 of these have failed, in nearly every case because the immune reaction led to rejection of the transplant. Now new ways are being explored to bypass the barrier; last week specialists in surgery and immunology from all over...
...Little Give? Many lawyers applaud Medina's voluntary approach with its passionate defense of the First Amendment and its main reliance on a toughening of the A.B.A.'s Canon 20, which has rarely if ever been enforced since it was written in 1908 to prevent lawyers from publicly discussing pending cases. Unhappily for Medina's hopes, Canon 20 may be a frail reed: all efforts to reform it over the past decade have failed. Reform seems more likely by the imposition of court rules, even though Medina called it "unwise...
Director James Hill does what he can to keep this misfortune cookie from crumbling, but the film's main failing is the drawback to most Oriental fare. Two hours afterward, the viewer is likely to be hungry for another movie...