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This week Mamoru Shigemitsu, 68, once more Foreign Minister of Japan, is in the U.S. to discuss questions of foreign policy and mutual defense. After ten years, it was time, said he in San Francisco, "to wash out any trace of that unfortunate war." The position of Mamoru Shigemitsu, despite the past, was that of a friend. His road to Washington had many a twist...
...months after he vanished, although police had supposedly fine-tooth-combed the place. Stella herself was at last ready to close the case: "It seems incredible that he or his body could disappear without clues. However, I am resigned to the fact of his death ... I am sure no trace of him will be found in the future...
...constant than during a trip to the moon. There is no known way that its crew can determine the direction and actual speed of a rocketship traveling in space. Speed cannot be changed without affecting the direction and the orbit. As Porter sees it, a "free fall" rocketship would trace a "sort of zigzag in space," running out of fuel long before its objective was reached...
Under Title 20, Section 54 of a Virginia law passed in 1924, white Virginians are permitted to marry only whites-those who have "no trace whatever of any blood other than Caucasian." (In deference to the proud descendants of Pocahontas, there is an exception in favor of those who may be "one-sixteenth or less" American Indian, but otherwise all white.) Under the law, white-colored marriages of Virginia residents are "absolutely void" even if they have been contracted out of state, and both parties in an interracial marriage may be sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary...
Nailing Up Heads. Like most of the Roman ruling class, Caius Julius Caesar was a somebody at birth. He liked to trace the family tree right to Rome's legendary founder Romulus, and even claimed kinship with Mars and Venus...