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...Socialist Party, and the friendships have endured. Graduating in the cherry blossom season of 1920, the newly married Kishi became a civil servant in the Ministry of Commerce and for the next 16 years was indistinguishable from thousands of other bureaucrats. Clutching his newspaper and a black umbrella, he commuted between his modest home in suburban Shinjuku and a governmental beehive in Tokyo's busy Kasumigaseki district. Though he looked and acted like all the others, his quick wit and swift grasp of facts and situations won him a new nickname: "The Razor...
...been settled elsewhere), on through the jumbled slums where Pakistani women, their pastel veils and head scarves fluttering in the sun, watched from roof tops. At Victoria Road, the two Presidents switched to a stately carriage drawn by six handsome horses. Under a gold-trimmed, brocaded red sun umbrella, Ike sat and waved, raised his hands to the crowds, and 60 colorfully garbed horsemen, former Bengal Lancers, trooped along with him carrying their traditional lances. When at last Ike alighted at the presidential palace, he turned in wonder to a flock of news photographers and said: "I hope you hard...
...Rome along the Old Appian Way-the historic route. Crowd turnout in the heavy rain: thin. The motorcade rolled through the Gate of San Sebastiano, past the Baths of Caracalla and the Colosseum, into the Piazza Venezia, where Mussolini used to strut and harangue. Even there, only 2,000 umbrella-toting Romans came out to look, and only a few shouted "Viva Ike" (pronounced Eekay). Among the most vociferous were Rome's Communists, who had greeted SHAPE Supreme Commander Ike on his last visit in 1952 with IKE, GO HOME, now waved placards praising THE SPIRIT or CAMP DAVID...
...underdogs before the kickoff in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium. But right from the start, Navy drove home its blocks with clean precision, turned loose darting, stubby (5 ft. 8 in., 185 lbs.') Halfback Joe Bellino for three touchdowns. On defense, Navy used four halfbacks to throw an umbrella over Lonesome End Bill Carpenter, put such a rush on sharpshooting Quarterback Joe Caldwell that he consistently missed open receivers. When the slaughter was done, Navy had rolled up the biggest score in the 60-game series (30 for Army; 25 for Navy; 5 tied...
...Refuge & Umbrella. Religions, said Scientist Huxley, are "organs of psychosocial man, concerned with human destiny and with experiences of sacredness and transcendence." They are "organizations of human thought" for coping with the difficult world, serving as a refuge from loneliness or an "umbrella of divine authority" against the responsibility of personal decisions. But "religion is not necessarily a good thing. It was not a good thing when the Hindu I read about this spring killed his son as a religious sacrifice. It is not a good thing that religious pressure has made it illegal to teach evolution in Tennessee, because...