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...Votes. Last week, with confidence that the time was ripe to topple the "old fox," the Socialists offered a motion of "no confidence" in the Diet. In 65 years, no Japanese Premier had ever survived a similar motion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Narrow but Safe | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...people. And so there will be an appeasement. The Communists, if they are clever, will first have a non-Communist government like Burma, and the French will leave with honor. And what can the American Congress do about it? It will be angry and helpless. When the time is ripe, the Communists will have Indo-China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: INDO-CHINA A War of Gallantry & Despair | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...American housewife with a command of Japanese would be perfectly at home listening to Kimi No Na Wa (What's Your Name?). A rich, ripe, full-bodied soap opera, Kimi has been running on Japanese radio for almost two years, has won more than 18 million devoted listeners, and is about to have three monuments erected to its memory at localities prominently mentioned in the script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Tokyo Suds | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

When the time was ripe, the invaders would make a landing on Guatemala's south coast, joining with local uprisings and a simultaneous invasion across the Honduran border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Plot Within a Plot | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...chorus boy." He thinks when he is asked to stand in for the leading man (Tony Martin) that at last he is flying high. Actually, he is just a sitting duck for "The Slasher," a fine comic heavy (Robert Strauss) who gnaws at his lines as if they were ripe black betel nuts. The whole thing is unfortunate for Singer Rosemary Clooney, who is still new to pictures. Almost every time she opens her mouth to sing, Hope shoves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Facing the Music | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

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