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...haiku as naturally as Canadians take to hockey; 1,000,000 Japanese habitually spend their leisure hours composing the 17-syllable poemlets. But the delicate work of a writer called Tetsu (Iron) is unique in the world of haiku. Tetsu is the pen name of the Rev. James Tetsuzo Takeda, 62, a witty, convivial Episcopal priest whose haiku are brief meditations upon the mysteries of the Christian year...
...tranki rage struck Japan with typhoon force in the fall of 1956, when the U.S.'s Lederle Laboratories joined Takeda Pharmaceutical in a fifty-fifty deal to set up Lederle Ltd. as an outlet for meprobamate (best known in the U.S. by its original brand name, Miltown). But no patent claim had been filed, and the vacuum was quickly filled by Japan's highly competitive drugmakers-concentrated on a narrow street called Doshomachi in Osaka, around a shrine of Yakusoshin (an ancient god of drugs). By December, Daiichi Seiyaku was on the market with its own brand...
...Takeda, a San Jose. Calif, farmer, awakened with a start one night last week-the front of his house had been soused with gasoline, set afire. After he beat out the flames, someone fired a shot...
This left Shanghai in the hands of some 1,200 U. S. Marines, a negligible French garrison and an overwhelmingly superior Japanese force. Shanghai's senior foreign officer became Rear Admiral Moriji Takeda, who could presumably ask for and take over the "defense" of the International Settlement. Since the U. S. could not and would not assume responsibility for fighting off the Japanese alone, Shanghai's International Settlement last week was as good as surrendered. Shanghailanders knew that they had lost their queer hybrid foreign city, not quite 100 years...
...Vela; for First Vice-President, L. S. Steiner, H. D. White; for Second Vice-President, C. W. Roegeberg, D. N. Theodore; for Secretary, H. D. Van den Arend, Golding; for Treasurer, W. G. Rice; for Student Council, two of whom are to be elected; J. V. Manach, K. Takeda, Bennet, R. P. Bridgman...