Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Henry Peter Bush, 42, a bachelor and an uncured romanticist, was bored. He wanted to give up flying some day and write adventure stories. He took his accumulated leave and set off on a round-the-world trip (Europe, the Middle East. India). Last week he turned up in Tokyo with a headline-making story right out of Terry and the Pirates. He had just come back, he said, from flying 350 miles into Red China to bring out the 13-year-old son of a wealthy Chinese businessman...
...While serving as head of Canada's liaison mission to General MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo after World War II. Norman was called home for questioning and a new security check. The principal point of suspicion: his association with Israel Halperin. a major in the Royal Canadian Artillery who was tried on a charge of aiding the Sam Carr-Fred Rose atom spy ring, and acquitted...
...agent to try to rescue some Marxist documents in the possession of a left-wing Japanese professor seized for repatriation. This background became the business of U.S. security agencies when Norman served briefly in 1945 as a counter-intelligence officer on the staff of General MacArthur in Tokyo...
...TOKYO, April 21--Strong economic pressure lies behind Japan's drive to ease restrictions on trade with Red China imposed by agreement between Japan, the United States and other Western powers...
...Japanese public's enthusiasm for Tessai's work soared in 1955 when Tokyo's National Museum of Modern Art turned over its entire three floors to an exhibition of his works. Western-oriented Japanese compared his work to Cézanne and Van Gogh in its vigor and independence; the president of Japan's Society for International Cultural Relations called Tessai "the greatest giant produced by Japan in recent times." Early this year a crowd of 20,000 showed up on the opening day of another Tessai exhibit. Now with a traveling exhibit of 53 Tessai...