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came the chilling news that all Japanese-Americans on the West Coast were to be resettled. Yamasaki sent for his parents, and they moved into his three-room Yorkville apartment. He did not mind the overcrowding, but he has not forgotten the resettling. "Our people had to sell everything for 10? to 15? on the dollar. The people who bought their businesses and houses knew they had them over a barrel." Up From Eyeshades. As the years passed, Yamasaki worked for Architect Wallace Harrison and later for Designer Raymond Loewy. In 1945, the large (600 employees) Detroit firm of Smith...
...founder of the Congress of Democrats, a left-wing organization banned in September under the government's vaguely worded Suppression of Communism Act. Last week Vorster moved against Jack Hodgson, 54, partially disabled World War II veteran and organizer of leftist groups, who must remain in a three-room flat round the clock until 1967. His wife...
...coastline along the Costa Brava and the Costa del Sol, where they have invested more than $55 million in the past two years. Italy is still popular with Germans from Konrad Adenauer down; on the French Riviera, real estate men say they are the best customers of all for three-room apartments priced at $60,000 up. But many well-heeled Germans have fled to more pastoral retreats such as Switzerland, where the government reported last week that they had bought 50% of all real estate sold since January 1961. Swiss retreats have long been favored by such Top Germans...
...story building was barely distinguishable from dozens of other new, white apartment houses in the middle-class European quarter of Algiers-even to the crudely painted SALAN across one wall. But the plainclothesmen had made no mistake. Minutes later, they were inside a three-room, ground-floor apartment, their service revolvers leveled at ex-General Raoul Salan. In the heart of the city where his men boasted of being "as safe as fish in the sea," almost one year to the day since his arrival in Algiers to take part in the abortive Generals' Revolt, the head...
Admirers sent dozens of gifts to his three-room hotel suite, about the same size as the tin-roofed, concrete-block bungalow back home in Groutville to which the Verwoerd regime restricts him. He went on a shopping spree with his wife, delighted photographers by throwing a few snowballs outside the Norwegian Storting (Parliament). But it was when Luthuli rose in the great hall of Oslo University to make his acceptance speech, and at a dinner the next evening, that he lifted the occasion far above mere warmth or politics. Dressed in his tribal costume-flowing blue-and-black robe...