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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the last round of talks in Moscow (TIME, Aug. 13), when Russian Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov brusquely refused to consider a treaty which would return to Japan the small southern Kuril islands of Kunashiri and Etorofu, the Japanese public burst into irate criticism of Hatoyama and his government. Politically as well as physically, Ichiro Hatoyama was in poor shape to fight such attacks. With illness, his speech had grown slurred, his inordinate need for sleep had kept him away from important Cabinet meetings and caused the press to label him "the afternoon-nap Prime Minister." Worst of all, leaders...
...Take it easy on an old man, Harvie," pleaded the challenger with a tired smile. Charles Kocsis, 43, Detroit tool distributor, had all but five holes of the final round of the U.S. Amateur golf championship behind him, but he had a slew of other amateur scrambles dating back to 1930 behind him too, and he was bushed. He got no more sympathy than he expected from Defending Champion Harvie Ward Jr., 30. "I can see your lips moving," said Ward, "but I've turned off my hearing...
...front by then, just as he figured to be, handsome Harvie Ward well knew that any round of any amateur championship took all the concentration he could master. Day after day of match play always turns a tournament into a mess of upsets. At Lake Forest's Knollwood Country Club last week, even the weather pitched in to ruffle the field. Scores soared on damp, blustery winds. Co-Favorite Ken Venturi, Ward's San Francisco running mate, the man who almost won the Masters, disappeared in the third round. Californian Bob Roos, the ungainly golfer who beat Venturi...
Cavalcade of Sports (Fri. 10 p.m. NBC). Ralph "Tiger" Jones v. Wilf Greaves, in ten-round middleweight bout...
Next on Kaiser's toy pile: an aluminum-domed arena to house a radio and color TV station, a movie sound stage, a theater in the round, a combination ice rink and supper club, an 1,800-seat auditorium. When asked how he is going to make the aluminum dome look Polynesian, Kaiser replied confidently: "I'll stick living palm trees through the roof...