Word: okinawa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the U.S.S. John S. McCain slipped into Southeast Asian waters last fall, she began a cruise that any peacetime sailor might envy. The Seventh Fleet destroyer leader called at Cebu, Singapore, Rangoon, Calcutta, Hong Kong and Okinawa. In Rangoon 15,000 Burmese streamed aboard her. In Calcutta she hus tled food and medicine to a city ravaged by flood and cholera. Off Formosa, she plucked 41 seamen from a sinking Japanese freighter. But last week, back at Pearl Harbor, came the biggest thrill of all: the arrival of a penniless Okinawan, bound for the University of Hawaii with...
...committee got entrance exams from the University of Hawaii, raffled off a Vespa motorscooter at a $1,150 profit. When the McCain reached Naha, Okinawa in December, she mustered a U.S. diplomat and two missionaries to find six able, poor boys who would promise to return to Okinawa and help their people. Among the candidates: Hoshin Nakamura, 19, son of a small farmer in the village of Sashki. A B-plus senior at rigorous Chinen Senior High School, Hoshin had no money for college. With ease, he passed the McCain's first test: a statement of purpose. Said Hoshin...
Roadblock. As Hagerty's Lockheed Super Constellation touched down from Okinawa, 30 minutes late, a wild melee broke out on the terrace between the right-wing and the left-wing toughs. Some 2,000 police surged forward to separate the combatants, while the sedate elders looked on in dismay. Ambassador MacArthur welcomed Hagerty and his companion. Appointments Secretary Thomas Stephens; the three paused briefly for photographs and then hurried to the ambassador's official black Cadillac. It sped off, followed by two Fords carrying six U.S Secret Servicemen. Just nine days later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was scheduled...
...lived on Okinawa for two and a half years as a serviceman and a civilian. In all my dealings with the military clubs I saw no corruption, evil, or extravagance...
...free liquor available at military clubs on Okinawa, TIME should point out that the Okinawan government levies a ridiculous 200% tax on all beer and 180% tax on liquor brought to the island, making prices in local nonmilitary bars astronomical. A bottle of Japanese beer in an Okinawan cabaret costs $1, while American brands are generally unavailable...