Word: tumors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Propped up in bed in a Tokyo hospital, retiring Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, recovering from a throat tumor, took up writing brush and rice paper. At the plea of his hopelessly deadlocked party, he stroked off a note choosing his own successor. Two hours later, Eisako Sato, 63, the dynamo of five former Cabinets, became the tenth Prime Minister of postwar Japan-and, all but inevitably, a man destined to guide his nation along a new course, for, after 19 years of penance, Asia's only fully industrialized country seems about to reclaim its place as a world power...
...Kono, 66 - are even more warmly admired by rival factions of the ruling Conservative-Liberal Party. Last week they became hot rivals in a power struggle for the premiership of Japan. Their opportunity came when Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, who has been hospitalized for eight weeks with a throat tumor, handed in his resignation...
...outraged father tells a cousin that his young daughter has a problem. "Tumore [tumor]?" asks the cousin solicitously. The father growls back, "Onore [honor...
...careful attention to Venezuela's sensitive military. And he still finds time for the public ribbon-snipping that Betancourt found so useful. Last month, on a trip to Maracaibo, Leoni dedicated a new teachers col lege, the first section of a 1,000-home housing project, a new tumor-study center at Zulia University Hospital, and a new radio-TV relay station-all in only two hours before a luncheon date...
Died. Clair Engle, 52, California's flamboyant Democratic Senator; of a brain tumor, following two brain operations that left him partially paralyzed; in Washington (see THE NATION...