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...director of the Center for East Asian Studies. Both scholar and diplomat, Reischauer spent considerable time in Japan, served on the State Department's Far Eastern desk in the hectic years of Asian upheaval after World War II, published more than half a dozen books on the Orient, has been an advocate of U.S. recognition of Communist China and a critic of American "overemphasis" on military power in Asia. In 1956 Widower (three children) Reischauer married Jaoanese Newswoman Haru Matsukata. granddaughter of Prince Masayoshi Matsukata, who was twice Japan's Prime Minister in the 1890s...
Sharply aware of the open penetration of Soviet Communism into the hemisphere through Castro's Cuba, North and South Americans are now awakening to a more subtle infiltration from the Orient. Catching children's eyes in bookstalls across Latin America are engaging editions of Spanish-language stories about happiness in Red China. Grownups can read more sophisticated magazines and drop in at 16 Red China-run "binational centers" set up in nine South American nations. They can tune to the powerful beam of Radio Peking, which recently jumped its broadcasts to 31½ hours a day in Spanish...
PACIFIC AIR CARRIERS will get no more competition on current routes. Eisenhower turned down CAB recommendation that Pan American and Northwest Orient get parallel routes with each other and with foreign flag lines between U.S. and Japan. Ike feared new routes might "adversely affect" foreign relations, also found that forecast of only 17 revenue passengers a day in five years made further competition uneconomical...
Samuel Barber, 50, saw his Die Natali: Choral Preludes for Christmas given its first New York performance by the New York Philharmonic. The remarkably successful piece is essentially a patchwork of familiar Christmas carols artfully embedded in unfamiliar harmonies-0 Come, O Come, Emmanuel, We Three Kings of Orient Are, Silent Night, God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen. The mood for the most part is reflective, the tone intensely lyrical, as most of Barber's best music is. The only truly shocking section of the piece is also one of the most effective: the brasses suddenly explode into a jazzy...
Pearl of the Orient...