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...Bird"), makes upward of $50,000 a year for practicing his specialty, and when he appears, clad in a loincloth, his long hair bundled in a topknot, he sends shivers of delight through the bobby-sox set. At 22, Taiho is the youngest grand champion in the history of sumo wrestling, one of the world's oldest sports...
...World Lightweight Champion Carlos Ortiz: his first defense of the title he won from Joe Brown last April, by trouncing Japan's Teruo Kosaka before 8,000 spectators in a Tokyo sumo wrestling hall. The 135-lb. Ortiz toyed with the windmilling Japanese challenger for four rounds, put him neatly away after 2 min. 32 sec. of the fifth. The fans applauded politely, rose from their straw mats, put on their shoes and went home...
...sight gag-like Kim Novak tubbing with the nude serenity of the White Rock girl while the intruding Lemmon clicks his eyes open and shut at the speed of a navy signal light. In a berserk finale, Novak trades punches with a lady nurse the size of a Japanese Sumo wrestler, and Lemmon goes on a piston-legged, cliffside pursuit of an old lady's runaway wheelchair, with the old lady in it, while a brass band spiritedly renders I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General...
...middle of this blot, Holtzman and colleagues see a sumo wrestler. A subject who sees a fat devil flanked by two thin ones would have little to worry about. But the interpretation, "A fat cannibal king with two pregnant women," says Holtzman, "is rich with hostility toward women." A schizophrenic response: "Those things on the side look like charred tree trunks-only they're pregnant." A single offbeat response to a single inkblot, says Dr. Holtzman. "leaves the psychologist up in the air. You may have a guy who suppresses Charles Addams tendencies under a peaceful exterior...
Today "Reischauer-san" is something of a hero in Japan. He and his Japanese-born wife (his second; his first wife died in 1955) are treated by Tokyo crowds like movie stars or sumo champions. As the first U.S. ambassador in Japan to speak, read and write the language, he is constantly on TV. When he arrived, one paper warned local politicians that the new ambassador would know exactly what they are up to, headlined: THE MAN WHO KNOWS TOO MUCH ABOUT JAPAN...