Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Police Dogs & Walkie-Talkies. To take charge of the campaign against Giuliano, Scelba announced the creation of a special force of 2,000 young carabinieri, all from mainland Italy, and all unmarried. At the head of the new command he placed Colonel Ugo Luca, a robust, taciturn ex-army officer...
Some conservatives suggested a Western-style solution: they wanted a "Rat Week," with plenty of anti-rat ballyhoo, and, to stimulate private enterprise, an increase in the present bounty of a half ana (1?) for each rat caught. Others objected that if the bounty were raised, it would pay the...
A quarter of a century later, Hideyoshi's successor as shogun, arch-isolationist Tokugawa Ieyasu, built a stronghold at Nagoya, 100 miles northeast of Osaka, Ieyasu wanted neither conquest nor foreign trade; he clamped the lid on Japan, and his family kept it there for 300 years. Like Osaka...
Outside the huge, modernistic kabuki theater, audiences queued up eagerly last week to see the annual ghost play, traditionally presented in the summer on the theory that the chill of a horror story will mitigate the heat (this year's thriller features a Japanese officer who murders his disfigured...
Kick from Behind. Osaka's Communists tried but failed to make capital of the "rationalization" firings, thanks largely to the vigilance of the city's hefty, even-tempered police chief, 49-year-old Eiji Suzuki. Chief Suzuki started his regime by cleaning up Osaka's formidable gangs...