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What followed has not been easy on Japanese muscles. For generations Japanese have knelt on tatami (matting), staggered under heavy loads, shuffled pigeon-toed to keep their wooden clogs from slipping off. Many Japanese have thick thighs, knotty calves and short legs. But sturdiness of limb renders the Japanese dancers...
The small liberal arts colleges that Elder will visit are Pomona, Occidental, Reed, Whitman, Carlton, Grinnell, Lawrence, Kenyon, and Oberlin. He said that he does not plan to visit universities, because he does not want to offer competition for their graduate schools.
No matter what is going on at Caltech, competition is the order of the day-everywhere, that is, except possibly on the gridiron. There, Coach Bert LaBrucherie, who once led U.C.L.A. to the Rose Bowl and later got thrown out because he failed to make it a habit, rules one...
In 1951 Rafael Lacson was the undisputed boss of Negros Occidental, second most populous province in the Philippines. He sat in the governor's chair and, allied with the big sugar planters, ran a tight police state. The province's 200.000 voters did as Lacson bade and so...
Padilla lost the election, of course. That night Lacson's uniformed bully boys picked him up and took him on an impromptu road show. They toured from town to town beating and torturing Padilla, displaying him in a public square while one of the boys announced: "Here is what...