Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days before last week's Japanese elections, the Communist Party held a rally in Tokyo's Imperial Plaza. In the crowd were U.S. soldiers, some of them Counter Intelligence Corps agents sent as observers. While a Communist speaker ranted against U.S. occupation, inflamed Communists in the audience noticed a Japanese policeman taking notes on the speech. A Communist snatched the notes away. A uniformed Nisei member of CIC, Corporal Henry Yamashita, tried to grab the notes back. Members of the crowd began to push Yamashita around and other U.S. soldiers went to his aid. One of them...
Freedom from "unfair interference" in the lives of individuals was last night hailed as the greatest blessing of America by Dean Donald K. David of the Business School. David spoke at a dinner in the ballroom of the Copley Plaza after awards had been presented to leading businessmen as part of the Boston Jubilee...
...French immigrant's visa, Garry married brunette Audrey Peters, 21, an ex-Hollywood dancer whom he had courted by mail. They met for the first time after he landed from the America three weeks ago. First, Garry and Audrey said their vows in the city hall plaza at Ellsworth, Me., while 500 townspeople joined in chanting a "unification of love" service which Garry had written, printed and passed around. Asked about his wedding guests, he explained: "I have always believed in the brotherhood of man and I want the people to take part in our wedding...
...voice over the telephone had said the cocktail party would begin at 4 p.m., but when I arrived at the Copley-Plaza thirty minutes past the hour of hadn't really begun even then. Small clusters of people were straining around the little room, straining at conversation: a group of men from the Boston press, a few department store buyers, one or two others. They clutched their drinks nervously, and fenced in, in a corner of the room, the bartender allowed himself a little smile of satisfaction. This was to be the lavish Boston welcome for La Voodoo, a Paris...
Four national champions will defend their titles this weekend--Arnold Plaza, of Purdue, at 115; Dick Hauser, of Cornell, 121; Lowell Lange, three-time national champ from Cornell, 136; and Shufard Swift, of the Navy...