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Pineapple Juice. Democrat Inouye has another sort of tradition. Born in a Honolulu slum, he enlisted in the famed Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team in 1943, won a battlefield commission and later a Distinguished Service Cross in Italy in a bloody action that cost him his right arm. A lawyer and a onetime (1954-58) majority leader of the territorial house of representatives, Inouye became Hawaii's first and only U.S. Representative in 1959 (the state will have two after this year). In Washington, Inouye has backed the Kennedy Administration all the way, taken enthusiastic care of Hawaii...
...hero (he captures the gefilte-fisherman). The nut occasionally has a date: Lieutenant Prentiss, a nurse who in civilian life was "just a tall girl, but now I'm a short commodity." When he wants to get in trouble, he unfortunately has a buddy: an industrious Nisei (Yoshio Yoda) who labors day and night to "indoctrinate" every native girl on the island. And when he wants to get out of trouble, he unfortunately has a shocking-pink colonel (Charles McGraw) who turns purple every time the hero appears...
...this daring gamble-which so far has cost Seibu $8,000,000-Tsutsumi is relying on a retailing formula that blends East and West. Housed in a block-long, four-story building with just touches of Japanese decor-a cluster of lanterns, an occasional screen and a few Nisei girls in geisha costume-Seibu of Los Angeles is essentially an American store with all the usual U.S. retailing gimmicks, including a two-deck parking garage and a roof-garden restaurant with bar. Its merchandise is predominantly Western-styled, and only 60% of it is made in Japan. To provide this...
Your article on the Nisei relocation plan [Aug. n] certainly put a dent in my image of our American heritage. How we, as Americans, could ever have permitted this is beyond my young mind...
...realization and understanding of wartime hysteria permitted Nisei to go along without undue trouble, as an all-out war effort on our part. Every loyal American sacrificed in one way or another. We Nisei did a little more than some others...