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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason for this to continue, "basically because the truths are all on our side." In spite of this tendency, U.S. defense install-ations remain major sources of irritation, though even here, he claims, the Japanese are gradually realizing that defense may be necessary, after all. Still, it is not uncommon for "throngs of Communists to flatter me by giving me attention and yelling 'Reischauer go home...
Caravelle Camaraderie. Such uncommon pressures unite the newsmen to an uncommon degree. They work hard and go their separate ways on separate assignments. But when they meet and unwind-in the field, in their homes or in the camaraderie of the Hotel Caravelle's eighth-floor bar-they pool their convictions, information, misinformation and grievances. But the balm of such companionship has not been conducive to independent thought. The reporters have tended to reach unanimous agreement on almost everything they have seen. But such agreement is suspect because it is so obviously inbred. The newsmen have themselves become...
...every reason for this to continue, "basically because the truths are all on our side." In spite of this tendency, U.S. defense installations remain major sources of irritation. But even here, he claims, the Japanese are gradually realizing that defense may be necessary, after all. Still, it is not uncommon, however, for "throngs of Communists to flatter me by giving me attention and yelling 'Reischauer go home...
...Paper-Doll Stare. Offering a rare opportunity to see this uncommon art, the Villa Hugel-formerly the mam Krupp estate in Essen, Germany-has assembled an exhaustive exhibition of Coptic art from private collectors and museums: some 625 works ranging from the Hellenic antecedents, of 3rd century Alexandria, to 20th century examples from Nubia and Ethiopia...
Junpei is a hobo full of heart and uncommon ingenuity. He wears a remarkable garment fitted out with pockets for everything: tools, utensils, pots, food packets, soy sauce and a jar of Ajinomoto brand monosodium glutamate. And taped over his liver, like a mustard plaster, is a wad of 80,000 yen. Junpei prefers to live by his wits instead of his money, and hits the road to put the touch on all who cross his zigzag path. On his travels he encounters Komako, a female swindler with a grisly gimmick: she begs by posing as a Hiroshima maiden, although...