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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disintegration of the Ashida cabinet left Japan in a political vacuum, just when a special Diet session was due to discuss a new minimum wage level for government employees (present level: about $14 a month). More serious was the resulting complete disillusionment with his government displayed by the Japanese man in the street. The U.S. had given Japan a new constitution, new slogans, new faces. It had not changed the real constitution of Japan-the skein of bribery which had held the country before the war and which continued to exist behind MacArthur's upright back...
...passed unpunished since 1944. Prío, who showed his mettle last year by breaking Communist control of Cuban labor, has assured Cubans that he intends to bring in law and administrative order. "The limits of anarchy," he said last week before his inauguration, "have been reached under the present government. I have no intention of beginning mine in the same condition...
...local communities will cooperate in a threefold program to attract young doctors to rural districts. First, with a $4,000,000 grant, which will be asked of the state legislature in January, the medical school will be expanded to graduate 100 doctors a year, instead of the present 80. Next, individual communities will set up the graduates in practice at a cost of some $15,000, which the doctors will pay back in installments. Lastly, a full-scale postgraduate program for practicing physicians will be launched: this year the medical school faculty will conduct a series of lectures in different...
Special Bodies. "By very drastic eugenical operation on the existing human form," suggested Dr. Stapledon, "it might be possible to enable the present human brain to be supported, in spite of excessive gravitation, by throwing man into the quadruped position, greatly strengthening the four legs, and at the same time pushing the head far backwards so as to distribute its weight evenly between the fore and hind legs. But what of the problem of providing hands? . . . My only suggestion is that the nose might be greatly elongated into a trunk equipped with delicate grasping instruments like fingers. It would probably...
...tale about the decline of domestic happiness in the U.S. with a succession of vaudeville acts. Between variety turns featuring magicians, quartettes, octets, horrifyingly clever children, crooners and mock madrigal singers, Love Life chronicles the marriage of Sam and Susan Cooper (Ray Middleton & Nanette Fabray) from 1791 to the present. The Coopers are a couple who never grow older, but the Cooper union is one that constantly grows worse. Love Life's argument is that steam, speed, materialism and greed have slowly wrecked connubiality. (It might be retorted that even allegorical couples were not meant to live together...