Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bury-the-hatchet tour of Southeast Asia last year, Japan's Premier Nobusuke Kishi found the Filipinos least ready of all of Tokyo's World War II victims to forgive and forget. Only a military guard greeted him at Manila airport, and the Philippine public turned a cold shoulder. The stiffly formal meetings with Filipino officials were chilled by arguments over Japan's reparations payments ($550 million promised) to the Philippines. Last week, on the first anniversary of Kishi's icy reception in Manila, the Philippines' President Carlos Garcia went to Tokyo. Hoping that flattery...
Such jokes did not have to be very funny to evoke bitter laughter from Turks in Istanbul last week. The government monopoly had just raised its prices on state-produced cigarettes, liquor, matches and tea. Premier "Adrian" 'Menderes, who cannot take it when newspapers dish it out. was also proving thin-skinned about satiric songs and nightclub jokes...
Setting a suggestively useful precedent for unhorsed Asian statesmen, ex-Premier U Nu of Burma, who recently turned over his governmental burdens to General Ne Win (TIME, Nov. 10), donned saffron robes, humbly appeared with shaven head for his ordination as a Buddhist priest in Rangoon...
Professedly unaware that his proposition was out of place, Italian Tailor Angelo Litrico, who has occasionally fitted the well-padded form of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, offered President Eisenhower a vicuna coat (free, no strings), later decided, after he was told about Bostonian Bernard Goldfine, that the offer was still good. "It is not insulting in Italy to present a vicuna coat," explained Litrico. "In Italy it is a good material...
Born. To Princess Shahnaz, 18, daughter of Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi (by his first wife, Princess Fawzia, sister of ex-King Farouk of Egypt), and Ardashir Zahedi, 29, Utah-educated agricultural engineer, son of ex-Premier Fazlollah Zahedi: their first child, a daughter; in Teheran. Name: Princess Zahra Mahnaz. Weight...