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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than 2,700,000 Japanese visited the shrine of the Emperor Meiji (Hirohito's grandfather). Five hundred thousand padded to the Yasukuni Shrine, above which the souls of Japan's war dead are said to hover, and clapped hands respectfully to get the souls' attention. Amid the wooded hills of Ise, southwest of Tokyo, 360,000 worshiped at the Grand Shrines of Shintoism...
...suggestion for turning the whole Appia area into a great park met the prompt disapproval of a former police chief who knew the difficulties of keeping down crime in Rome's parks. "What wouldn't go on," he asked, "in a new park of many thousand acres on the city's outskirts...
...week's end, the angry probation officers challenged Coates's handling of the story, asked: "Do you think you have helped the boy by bringing this out in the open?" Shot back Coates: "No, but I may have helped a thousand other little boys...
...hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars was appropriated by the Fund for the Republic to conduct one to three hour hour long interviews on the basis of a 12-page questionnaire Stouffer prepared. "The most elaborate and modern methods were used to get accurate results," said Stouffer...
...field of social welfare, especially, the President's proposals seem far less than adequate. With fifteen million homes classified "substandard" in the 1950 census, the President has asked Congress for the authority to build only seventy thousand public housing units in the next two years. Since the 83rd Congress refused to grant even this pittance, there is a danger that the new Congress may accept the offer. The Democrats should not be content with doing better if it is less than good enough...