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...Japanese into the royal presence-33,000 more than the year before. There were few of the old banzais but plenty of lively curiosity: "The Empress has lost weight," the women whispered. In auspicious 1961 (like 1901, when the Emperor was born, it is "the Year of the Ox"), monarchy was enjoying a resurgence of popularity in Japan...
Tues., Jan. 10 Expedition! (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.).* A trackdown through Greenland's icy wastes of a vanishing breed-the unabominable musk ox...
...long time ago, in Africa, Isak Dinesen saw two lions attack an ox. Unarmed but for a stock whip, she flew at the kings of the jungle and lashed them into retreat...
...supposition was that when the late Damon Runyon immortalized such citizens as Angie the Ox, the Lemon Drop Kid and Meyer Marmalade, he had largely consulted his own imagination. But last week, when Senator Estes Kefauver's antimonopoly subcommittee opened hearings in Washington on the fight racket, the characters who took the stand to describe the octopus grip of the underworld on U.S. boxing were pure Runyon-but Runyon without romance...
...Ox, One Vote. On their side, the old Rhee supporters showed that they had yet to unlearn their old tricks. One wealthy ex-Liberal, running scared as an Independent, "loaned" teams of oxen to the farmers of his district, explaining: "If I am elected, you may keep them. But if I am defeated, I must take them back to pay off my creditors." Other candidates freely bought votes by folding money in campaign literature, and when the money dried up, by opening barrels of makkolli, one of the headiest of the home-brewed Korean rice wines...