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...There's been no Rose Bowl talk at Iowa," said the Hawkeyes' Coach Forest Evashevski. The "One Man Gang" who led Michigan's bruising prewar powerhouses in 1939-40 had yet to win a football game in Minneapolis-either as Michigan player or Iowa coach. So he forgot about New Year's Day and concentrated on the task at hand. "I'll be taping my players all night," he added as he brooded over the long roster of Iowa casualties...
...methods. This was Gomulka's second appearance as first secretary of the Polish party; his first tour wound up in his imprisonment in 1951 on charges of Titoism. And he had risen to party leadership in the first place largely because he was one of the few prewar Polish Communists of any stature available when Poland fell under the domination of the Red army at the end of World War II. This lonely eminence he owed to the fact that he had been in a Polish prison in 1938 and hence unable to accept a pressing invitation to Moscow...
...eyed Maria Callas established herself as undisputed queen of the world's opera. From London to Naples her presence in even the tiredest old operas packed the house. At Milan's La Scala she has, almost singlehanded, increased the season's attendance half again over prewar records. In critical Vienna, 10,000 people clamored for the 2,000 tickets available when she sang Lucia de Lammermoor. In Chicago her presence successfully launched a new opera company in a city which has been death on opera companies for years. Hundreds of ear-hardened operagoers surge around stage doors...
...exhibition, the legend "Chinese-Russian Friendship" had been scraped out, and the Chinese had diligently chiseled instead: "China-Japan Amity." Peking, exploiting any opportunity to loosen Japan's ties with the West, had decided to make a big thing of a Japanese trade fair, the first since the prewar days when North China was the biggest market in imperial Japan's "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere...
...nation reduced by the war to 60% of its territory, while its population swelled from 72 million to 89 million people, the Japanese economy has been bursting at the seams. In eleven years Japan has doubled its prewar industrial output, far outdistanced its peak wartime production years. Japan's phenomenal recovery has been due largely 1) U.S. Government procurement orders, and 2) soaring exports, notably of cheap textiles and heavy machinery. Last week Japan's biggest industrial manufacturer. Hitachi Ltd., landed two fat new orders from India and Formosa for $830,000 worth of hydroelectric equipment and transformers...