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...most promising attempts to devise such a law was made by Physicists Yuval Ne'eman of Israel and Murray Gell-Mann of Caltech, with a contribution from Japanese-born Susumu Okubo of the University of Rochester...
...girl was 19, and a princess-Aishinkakura Eisei, niece of Henry Pu Yi, the Japanese puppet "Emperor of Manchukuo [Manchuria]," who is now a prisoner of the Chinese Reds. The boy: spectacled Takemichi Okubo, 20, the son of a railroad executive. Both were students at Gakushuin University in Tokyo...
...princess' mother disapproved of their getting married (she thought Okubo had "bad manners"). One day last month the young couple entrained for scenic Izu Peninsula, traveled by taxi halfway up storied Amagi Mountain. When Aishinkakura was missed, her mother sent police searching for the couple; later she took to the radio to broadcast her promise to permit the marriage. But there are no radios on Amagi Mountain. After wandering in the misty forest until dusk, the lovers took clippings from their hair and fingernails and wrapped them in white paper as mementos for their families. Okubo changed into...
Narita's 800 houses nestle in the rice paddies two hours west of Tokyo. All but 13 of the townspeople's 51 entries were eliminated before the show opened. The locally prominent portraitist Kiichi Okubo, who had been elected judge, thought they failed to meet the exacting best standards of a country where people look for art, as well as craft, in familiar things...
...went to an up-to-date high-school boy for a straw man with burned-out radio tubes for eyes and a larger tube for a tongue. Tin flaps made its cylindrical head revolve in the breeze, scouring every corner of the paddy with its goggle eyes. Mused Judge Okubo: "Scientific and effective...