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...midweek the Kennedys climbed aboard a chartered plane and flew 225 miles to Osaka, "the Chicago of Japan." They visited a technical high school, discovered that television appearances in Tokyo had made them national celebrities. In the schoolyard hundreds of students rushed up, thrust out their arms, yelled "Kennedy-san, shake hands." Bobby shook. At the nearby Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., the Attorney General sat down at a workers' table, chatted about Communism while munching manfully on a whale steak...
...chanting demonstrators shuffled off toward the Diet, a few blocks away, inching their way along at ushi aruki (cow's pace) so that traffic was blocked for five hours. A column of screaming Zengakuren students stoned police guards lined up at the Diet, injuring scores. In Kyoto and Osaka, other student demonstrators staged week-long battles with the police...
...aside from tobacco-juice stains splashed liberally about on its floor inside, the plant of the Long Shoals Cotton Mills, Inc. (projected 1960 sales: $2,500,000) is different from any other in the nation. Its solid rows of pastel blue machines bear the stamp "0-M Spinning Machine, Osaka, Japan." Massapoag is the first mill in the U.S. to be completely fitted with Japanese-made spinning equipment. Standing beside his Japanese machines. Textile Veteran David Hunter ("Buck") Mauney, mill superintendent and principal owner with his brother Bill, says: alt's beautiful stuff. We're getting better quality...
...Ebisu-san is smiling again," say the busy businessmen of booming Osaka these days. Translation: "We never had it so good." Ebisu-san is the fat-faced Shinto god of wealth, and last week Osaka held its annual three-day festival in his honor, presented the god with the biggest cash offering in ten centuries. Priests in white kimonos and sky blue shirts, shrine virgins in billowing scarlet, shrine dancers in white and red, and musicians with flutes and harps kept things moving while nearly 2,000,000 of Osaka's 2,540,000 citizens flocked to Ebisu...
Curb Service. In Osaka, Japan, to help along a safety campaign, some 40 housewives formed a stretcher corps to haul fallen tipplers out of traffic danger...