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...onetime military governor, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, still recuperating from a recent prostate operation (TIME, April 4). Asked if Manhattan and Tokyo have anything in common, Azuma, a man of few English words, tersely replied: "Yes. Traffic jams." While touring the city, Azuma's wife Teruko, 62 and mother of five, stumped her guides by mischievously inquiring: "Who owns the Statue of Liberty-New York or New Jersey?" Its custodian: the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Owner: the U.S. people...
...Married. Teruko Pia Kurusu, 21, daughter of Japan's special "peace" envoy to Washington at the time of Pearl Harbor, and Frank White, 27, ex-U.S. Army recreation officer, now a civilian employed by MacArthur's headquarters; in Yokohama, in a ceremony attended by neither her father nor her New York-born Caucasian mother...