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...change, even in the most remote areas, is on the way. In Iwano village in southern Honshu a 60-year-old farm wife named Yori Oka has been waging a highly successful "Down with Feudalism" campaign. She organized cooking schools, sewing classes, formed a Village Women's Association, and finally thought of Green Flag Day. Once a month the Women's Association plants a green flag in the village square, and beneath its protection the daughters and even the daughters-in-law take a day of rest...
...During the days of the united front in China (1938-39) before the Stalin-Matsu-oka pact, my husband [George Fitch] went to Yenan from Chungking with Chou Enlai...
...years old, Makoko was valued at $75,000. The zoo hoped to mate him with 12-years-old Oka in the next cage and thus produce the first baby gorillas spawned in captivity. When Makoko died, a keeper predicted that Oka "will know what's happened. She'll grieve. She won't live now." Instead, she padded around her cage yesterday as if nothing had happened. A zoo official, according to the Associated Press, said the faithless Oka didn't even miss Makoko...
...hopelessly inept. "The supposition," laments Father Gabriel, "is that Trappists are great agriculturists. But that isn't the case here. They're all city kids." The community is fattening 200 steers, starting a large vegetable garden and 75 acres of corn. Next year it may begin making Oka cheese, a Trappist specialty...
...newly rich black-marketeers fling lavish parties in speakeasy restaurants for their geisha girls. Pomaded dandies and taxi-dancers foxtrot in crowded dance-halls to the melancholy strains of ikoku no oka, "the hills of a strange land"-a hit-parade lament about Japan's 400,000 strong P.W.s still held in Soviet Siberia...