Word: nara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grant of 1,200 rupees a month, plus daily transcripts of Radio Pakistan news-seven of Quetta's publishers agreed to try. Soon they were producing Quetta's first homespun daily, which had seven names: Tanzim (Order), Kohsar (Mountain), Bagh-o-Bahar (Garden in Spring), Qand (Sweetness), Nara-e-Haq (Voice of Truth), Zamana (Times) and Sadaqat (Righteousness). Last week they laid bold plans to float a bigger government loan, hire a pool reporter and three stencil cutters, organize group circulation and sales crews. Observing from afar, Governor Husain sent congratulations: "Bound to create history in the field...
...Chinese career woman from Hong Kong brought Coates a pair of knitted socks after a business trip to Formosa. Asked the surprised Coates: "You knitted them in-in Taipei?" Quipped she sardonically: "Of course, dear. In Taipei everybody knits-nothing else to do." Watching the sacred wooden temples of Nara, 8th century capital of Japan, Author Coates senses the painstaking, frustrating drive towards perfectionism in the Japanese soul, virtually the only high civilization ever to record and preserve its architectural masterpieces in wood for centuries ("What were Florence and Venice when Nara was in its prime? Charlemagne was not born...
...Since occupation's end many conservative groups have been agitating for the revival of Foundation Day. Last week Prime Minister Tanzan Ishibashi's ruling Liberal-Democratic Party proposed a bill in the current Diet session which would in effect revive Foundation Day. And at Kashihara Shrine near Nara, some 10,000 elderly Japanese streamed through the great wooden-pillared gateway to the inner shrine...
...Calhern (real name: Carl Henry Vogt), 61, tall (6 ft. 3 in.), topflight. Brooklyn-born character actor of stage (King Lear) and screen (The Magnificent Yankee, Julius Caesar); of a heart attack, while on location with the M-G-M company of The Teahouse of the August Moon; in Nara, Japan...
Travelers' Aid. In Nara, Japan, city officials hastily recalled a guidebook prepared for touring college students after discovering that it offered complete information on the city's red-light districts, including names, addresses and rates...