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...December 1968 Sipple fought in "Operation Scotland II," a campaign against the North Vietnamese, and was medically evacuated. "I took some shrapnel," he says. "I was a pretty screwed-up guy both physically and mentally. I learned war is no John Wayne movie." Sipple spent the rest of his tour of duty at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Philadelphia. He was released from active duty as a private first class in March...
Half a century ago, when he was 19, Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan boarded the battleship Katori for a six-month grand tour of Europe. The trip only whetted his appetite for more: in Paris, he told an American newsman that he hoped a visit to the U.S. would only be a briefly "deferred pleasure." It turned out to be a long postponement. Soon after he returned home in 1921, Hirohito was declared Prince Regent for his deranged father; by 1926 he was Emperor, and a few years later Japan embarked on the ill-starred experiment in expansionism that finally...
...Exhibit. The U.S. tour begins with a bow to the Bicentennial: the imperial party will go straight to the restored colonial town of Williamsburg, Va. Then they fly to Washington for full-dress reception and state dinner in the White House. Empress Nagako, an accomplished amateur painter, will view a specially mounted exhibit of Japanese art at the Smithsonian Institution's Frer Gallery (TIME, Sept...
Early next week Hirohito and his wife will go to Chicago where they will lunch with the Windy City's Emperor Richard Daley, and then move on to Los Angeles. There they will begin a busy three-day California tour with a lunch given by Mayor Tom Bradley. A special guest, at Hirohito's personal request, will be John Wayne, whose old World War II movies with their caricatures of Japanese soldiers as villainous fanatics, were once campy favorites in Japan. A visit to Disneyland will be beamed by TV satellite to Japan. In San Francisco, the Emperor...
Triumphant Trip. Hawaii, which has become a mecca for vacationing Japanese, will be the imperial couple's last U.S. stop. There are no plans for a tour of Pearl Harbor. To Americans, such a visit would only seem penitential, while" many Japanese still look on the Dec. 7, 1941 attack as a glorious victory in the lost war. But Japanese officials are apprehensive about the possibility of an overeffusive welcome for the Emperor by the 15,000 Japanese nationals and 208,000 Japanese Americans who live in Hawaii. They are particularly unsettled by the prospect of cheers of "Banzai...