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According to an old Japanese legend, anyone who folds 1,000 cranes will be granted a wish. The present project was inspired by Sadako Sasaki, a girl who survived the bombing of Hiroshima but died eight years later, at age ten, of leukemia caused by exposure to radiation. In the hospital, Sadako began folding 1,000 origami cranes. She could not finish them before she died, but her friends and classmates completed the task...
...deliberate play on words. "The TIME paper was just the right weight, and the car ads made really beautiful birds." Finally, Koyama made a special bird, gluing the signature at the end of this column to one wing and her own signature to the other. It was placed at Sadako Sasaki's grave in Hiroshima...
...Japan in the United Nations: a framework for Evaluation, Sadako Ogata, Japanese envoy at the U.N., rm. 2, 1737 Cambridge...
...Japan in the United Nations: A Framework for Evaluation" is the title of a lecture to be delivered by Sadako Ogato, an envoy at the Japanese mission to the United Nations. The lecture is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. tomorrow, in room 2, 1737 Cambridge St. Joseph Berliner, a Brandeis professor, will give "A Sovietologist's View of China's Economy: Report of a Visit" at 1 p.m. in Room 3, 1737 Cambridge...
Edward Schultz and Sadako Yukoyama, both former New England Conservatory students, realized Dautricourt's innovative conception of the flute's musical possibilities with considerable success. This is not at all as conventional as it sounds, for, more and more, composers like Dautricourt are requiring from wind performers new technical tricks such as playing two and three notes simultaneously, tone bending, quarter-tones or notes at smaller intervals than half-steps, and percussion effects...