Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unpleasant Choice. Sato readily admitted that he had "never worked so hard in my life as in this election," but hard work was only part of the explanation for his success. For one thing, Japan's anti-American mood had been severely overestimated-particularly by the Tokyo press. In fact, some of the grievances that had sparked the protests, including the one in front of the Tokyo hospital, were less ideological objections than complaints against the noise of helicopters bringing in wounded G.I.s, jets landing at bases, and other down-to-earth factors. Sato acted quickly to move some...
...same time, many Japanese do not approve of U.S. policy in Asia. The student protest against U.S. war vessels, for one thing, bespeaks a strong desire on the part of the young to carve out a new national identity, based partly on pacificism and partly on self-sufficiency. Many leaders, too, are embarrassed over the continued dependence of Asia's No. 1 industrial power on U.S. defense hardware. Many of them look for a change in 1970, when the mutual-protection pact comes up for review. Polls show that nearly half the population is still undecided on whether...
...South. Most parents almost anywhere are still deeply troubled if not outraged by it, and "Guess who's coming to dinner, Mom?" is a line to frighten not a few households. But compared with a few years ago, the custom has increased dramatically. "It's no big thing any more," says a blonde 17-year-old who graduated from California's El Cerrito High School. Nor need mixed couples date furtively and clandestinely. Today they do it openly, and often they are the campus elite...
Deep Down Inside. Parental horror is another thing that mixed couples encounter. "Parents are a real hang-up about that part of my life," complains Candy Reuben, 21, a recent University of California graduate whose mother refuses to allow a black man in the house...
...ignored by three generations of American women striving for female emancipation. The breast's function as fans et origo of a perfectly balanced natural diet was largely ignored. Now there are signs that highly educated and sophisticated American women are moving back to breast feeding as the best thing not only for their babies' physical and mental health but for their...