Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important policy change was the U.S.'s No. 2 diplomat, Under Secretary of State (for Economic Affairs) C. Douglas Dillon. "Either we move ahead to get rid of outmoded trade restrictions," he told the 54 nations represented at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) meeting in Tokyo, "or we can expect a resurgence of protectionism and restrictive action." Two days later he told members of the America-Japan Society: "During the era of the so-called 'dollar shortage' we were disposed to be passive about foreign discriminations against our exports and to listen with sympathy...
Disaster Plan. In Tokyo, a foreigner in his underwear leaped from a cab, rushed into a Red Cross office, handed the rest of his clothing to a startled clerk along with a note in English stating "For typhoon relief," dashed...
...picture has been expertly written, directed and produced by an old Hollywood smoothie named Delmer (Destination Tokyo, Kings Go Forth) Daves, but unfortunately Daves's taste is not equal to his technique. Up to a point the story argues for a healthy relativity in morals. But the relativity of A Summer Place is anchored to no absolutes. The film treats adultery as casually as if there were nothing at all holy about matrimony. And along with moral sensitivity, the film lacks social responsibility. The adolescent love scenes are an inflammation to imitation...
Piling Up the Evidence. In Tokyo, police raided their own photo lab at headquarters, found stacks of erotic pictures that other cops had confiscated, reproduced, and sold in sets of five and ten to eager customers...
...many jet-age problems facing the world airline industry, the most pressing is how to find enough passengers to fill all the expensive new planes that will soon be flying. At the 15th annual meeting of the International Air Transport Association in Tokyo last week, Director General Sir William P. Hildred posed the problem, and provided an obvious answer: "We shall have to feed progressively larger gobbets of traffic to these monsters or they will eat us up, capital...