Word: nisei
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Ricketts sometimes chafes at the restrictions, however mild, of working for what is essentially a serviceman's newspaper. But such moods pass. Married to a Canadian-Nisei whom he met at a party, tooling around Tokyo in his crimson MG, demolishing a movie or some visiting star, reading with great pleasure the latest stack of scurrilous mail, Al Ricketts has everything he wants. Says he: "I'm doing a job I love in a town I love...
...carbohydrate diet of rice, fish and vegetables, have an average cholesterol count of 120. The Hawaiian Japanese, on the other hand, also eat fish, along with meat, eggs and dairy products; they get 32% of their calories from fats, have an average cholesterol count of 183. The Los Angeles Nisei's diet is typically American; they get 45% of their calories from fatty foods, and their average cholesterol count is 213. For every one heart attack in Japan, Keys notes, the Hawaiian Japanese have four, the Los Angeles Nisei...
...Mindful that any Southern politician is automatically suspected of race prejudice, Johnson tapped Hawaii's Congressman Daniel Ken Inouye, a Nisei, to make one of the seconding speeches...
...greatest weight lifter of modern times, and one of the world's most remarkable athletes, is a stocky, Sacramento-born Nisei named Tommy Kono, 29. He wears horn-rimmed glasses, speaks with unfeigned modesty, and seems as innocuous as Clark Kent-until he takes off his clothes and sets to work. Then Kono becomes Superman himself...
Married. Pat Suzuki, 29, the little (4 ft. 11 in.) Nisei girl with the big voice, who for 16 months has been belting...