Word: teas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JAPAN displays its ancient arts and modern crafts, consumer products and heavy industrial machines in an intricate maze of buildings. Its best attraction is an outdoor demonstration of samurai dueling, Kabuki players and judo experts, as well as the tea-ceremony performance, where the ancient disciplines are enacted by pretty Japanese hostesses in gorgeous, drip-dry kimonos...
...right-wing," anti-ecumenical Protestant clergyman, I tried to read your article on Richard Cardinal Gushing [Aug. 21] with proper disgust, but nostalgia got the best of me. Any Bostonian worth his salt cod has to be proud of this grand old man and his antics. Like our glorious Tea Party, he will always be part of my Boston. (THE REV.) R. W. NICKERSON Lisbon...
...nearly as risky as inviting Hedda Hopper, Sheilah Graham, Lolly Parsons and Dorothy Kilgallen to tea together, but Chief Economic Adviser Walter Heller thought he could pull it off. For months he worked to arrange an unprecedented meeting of four past chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisers with President Johnson. Though economists are a notably proud and prickly lot, Heller felt that the meeting would indicate that the former chairmen generally support the major points of the Administration's economic policy, and he hoped that acrimonious debate could be avoided. Last week President Johnson joined Heller and Economic...
...Asian-born, Western-trained economists who directed the survey are worried most about the crisis facing Asia's agriculture and mining. Eighty percent of the area's export income comes from such primary commodities as rubber, minerals, tea and jute - but commodity prices fluctuate sharply, and industrial nations are turning increasingly to man-made substitutes. Because of soft prices and shaky politics, the inflow of foreign capital is declining. Asia's foreign exchange reserves are far lower and its trade deficits three times higher than a decade...
After King's College, Cambridge (Uncle Alan was Dean), the other golden lads and lasses fell in love, married, got jobs. Not Rupert. Dawdling on at Grantchester, a sleepy village near Cambridge ("Yet stands the church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?"), he floundered through one infatuation after another. But with the only girl who really wanted a serious relationship, Rupert backed and filled, made himself sick and finally fled to the South Seas. He admitted, says Hassall, that "he was, most regrettably, a Victorian at heart." At 27, only a few months...