Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. Burt Ward, 21, junior half of the "dynamic duo" as Batman's Robin; by Bonney Lou Ward, 20, daughter of TV Musical Director Mort Lindsey; on grounds of mental cruelty ("He compared me to other women"); after 18 months of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...
...Party & a Half. The real challenge to Sato comes from his own party's endemic factionalism. The Liberal Democrats, themselves a postwar coalition of Japan's conservatives and liberals born in 1955, operate on a system called oyabun-kobun (leader-adherent) that closely resembles the ward-based political structure of American politics in the late 19th century. In his battle to retain the presidency of the party last December, Sato had to meld the miasmic wishes of a dozen cliques in order to stave off the challenge of former Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama. He won with a hefty...
...political arm of the Buddhist-backed Soka Gakkai (Value-Creation Society), led by piously political Daisaku Ikeda, 38, Komeito attracts the new Japanese: city dwellers who have lost contact with the ward-oriented politics of their rural home towns. Komeito calls for a cleanup in the wheeling and dealing typical of Asian government. Since Japan is fated, for better or worse, to a continuing urban growth and a growing urban malaise, it is mass parties of the Komeito brand that will doubtless dictate Japan's political future...
Retreat Home. Bourjaily describes the assassination's effect chiefly on two men. One actually knew Kennedy. Dave Doremus not only sailed against Jack as a boy, but he also shared a ward with him in a naval hospital. The other, Barney James, is Doremus' lifelong friend. The story begins when Bourjaily's characters hear of the assassination. Barney and his wife are about to sail on a cruise with Dave and Dave's new wife when the "news from the southwest" reaches them. An instinctual fear that "something is moving around out there in the night...
Outsiders are invited in as Research Associates for a period of six months to two years to engage in specific research and writing for publication. There are about 30 of these people, including a staff member of the Rand Corporation, British author Barbara Ward, and Paul Seabury, professor of political science at Berkeley...