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Television news clips of Japanese Emperor Hirohito's arrival at Honolulu International Airport last week probably left many viewers across the U.S. wondering momentarily whether they had heard the anchor man right. Was it Hawaii, the final leg of the Emperor's U.S. tour-or was the royal couple back in Tokyo? After all, practically all of the smiling and handshaking officials greeting Hirohito and Empress Nagako seemed to be Japanese. And so they were: Americans of Japanese ancestry. Few mainlanders realize the extent to which AJ.A.s, as they are known in Hawaii, have flourished in the islands...
...Angeles, the main event-besides the Disneyland tour-was a luncheon at the Music Center attended by 530 of the city's leading lights, including John Wayne, whom Hirohito specifically asked to meet. In Los Angeles, and later in San Francisco and San Diego, the Emperor also met scores of Japanese Americans, whom he praised at one point for "withstanding many difficulties" in the U.S. At week's end the imperial couple flew on to Hawaii, where they planned to spend three days touring and resting before they board their jet this week for the long ride home...
...custodians" at two multimillion-dollar surveillance sites along the Giddi Pass. They will also man two or three new watch stations in the area. Their life will not be easy, as TIME'S Jerusalem bureau chief Donald Neff discovered when he went on a Jeep-borne tour of the area. His report...
Daltrey also has two solo record albums to his credit-the second was 18 on the charts-an impending concert tour with The Who and the starring role in Lisztomania...
...editor in the Village Voice.) A week before publication, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (Simon & Schuster; $10.95) is already a major event; it is the Book-of-the-Month Club selection for November, is being serialized in four national magazines and will be promoted on a nationwide tour. All this is likely to make Brownmiller the first rape celebrity who is neither a rapist nor a rapee...