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Potential Bombs. The portents touched off a selling campaign by Tokyo department stores of survival kits containing medicines, canned foods and candles. The monthly magazine Soh devoted a whole issue to the catchy question "Could you survive a major earthquake?" No doubt millions of Japanese could-but their capital city probably would...
...devoted to apple-pie softness and bamboo resilience. In war movies of the '40s, the Japanese were a thin yellow line. Tora! Tora! Tora!* is a refreshing reversal. The Americans tend to blend into an indistinguishable potbellied mob. It is the Orientals who are individuals. Admiral Yamamoto (Soh Yamamura) is Eskimo-like in appearance, stoical in practice, goaded by an affliction no leader can afford: doubt. Lieut. Commander Fuchida (Takahiro Tamura) is an Oriental Smilin' Jack, all jaw and strut. Ambassador Nomura (Shogo Shimada), present in Washington when the bombs fell, is the same shrunken cipher who appeared...
South Carolina's Democratic Senator J. Strom Thurmond looked across the witness table at Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, and asked: "What is the soh'ce of yo' policy?" Sylvester, who is from Montclair, N.J., was puzzled: "I beg your pardon?" Repeated Thurmond: "What is the soh'ce?" "The what?" "The soh'ce-s-o-u-r-c-e." "Oh, source," "Yes, soh'ce. Ah speak with a Southern accent...
...first Prime Minister last June, set out on a crime cleanup, but even so, all forms of lawlessness have increased in Singapore this year, and already there have been 55 murders, v. 38 all last year. A month ago, when Triad hoodlums kidnaped Chinese Millionaire Chia Yee Soh and got a fat ransom for his return, Lee and his Cabinet declared all-out war on the gangs...
...Accepted reluctantly the resignation of Dr. Arthur F. Burns as chairman of his three-man Council of Economic Advisers. The new chairman: fellow CouncilMember Dr. Raymond J. Saulnier (pronounced Soh-Nyay), 48, like Burns a Columbia University economics professor and specialist at Washington's nonpartisan National Bureau of Economic Research before joining the council last year...