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Bills providing for Japanese rearmament with U.S. aid (opposed by the left-wingers) had been passed. Yoshida wanted one more piece of legislation disposed of: a bill to abolish local police forces in favor of a national force organized by prefects. Opponents argued that this would bring back the prewar totalitarian character of Japan's police. Yoshida's Liberals replied that the country could not afford overlapping police forces, and that there was no danger that a national force would become oppressive, since it would be supervised by a civilian commission...
...ghost surgeon in this case was the hero of Erich Maria Remarque's bestseller about prewar Paris, Arch of Triumph, but medical ghosts walk not only in fiction. They perform operations in U.S. hospitals every day. It works this way: the family doctor tells a patient that an operation is necessary and either says flatly, or strongly implies, that he will do it himself. But after the patient is under the anesthetic, in comes a more skilled specialist in surgery. He may know nothing of the patient's history and never see his face. Before the anesthetic wears...
Mies is not ashamed of girders or any other structural element that is usually hidden. In his prewar European constructions, as in his later skin & bones designs in the U.S., he seems bent on showing the skeleton of the building. This stems from his contention that modern architecture should be structural architecture. Says he: "The old way was to look at architecture as a display of forms. We concentrate on the simple, basic structure, and we believe the structural way gives more freedom and variety. Remember, we are not trying to please people. We are driving to the essence...
...bring the dying art of salesmanship back to its robust prewar vigor, many a company thinks that the trick is to enlist the aid of its salesmen's wives. International Cellucotton Products Co. puts out a 48-page booklet on how a wife can help her salesman husband get ahead ("We shall have an unbeatable-a triumphant three-way partnership: wife, husband, company"). Others use such incentives as bonus vacation trips for entire families, in hopes that wives will keep their husbands working their darndest to win them. Last week the Clary Multiplier Corp., of San Gabriel, Calif., announced...
...prewar total of some 37,000 schools, 10,000 have been completely destroyed and 8,000 more half destroyed...