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...buckskin village celebrated as the leafy laboratory of Abner Doubleday, Baltimore and Detroit Third Basemen Brooks Robinson and George Kell, San Francisco Pitcher Juan Marichal and Dodger Manager Walter Alston went into the Hall. Just 149 players are enshrined, only 15 having been beckoned on the first wave of the Baseball Writers' Association. (Ballots are cast five years after a player retires and for up to 15 years after that until he receives 75% of some 400 votes or is trundled off to "the Oldtimers Committee.") A mere 65 have been elected by the writers...
...short of expectations. In the process, however, the election set off what Italian newspapers called a political "earthquake." The Christian Democrats suffered an unprecedented loss of more than 5%, dropping from 38% to 33% of the popular vote. What shook the political establishment even more was a wave of protest votes, estimated at 18% to 20% of the electorate, squandered on splinter parties or simply thrown away in blank or spoiled ballots. Such gestures of contempt for the major parties were taken as a public warning against politics-as-usual while the nation's worsening economic ills went unattended...
...needs fresh cash because the wave of near defaults has left it almost broke. "The agency's financial position is very precarious," said Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust. "It is already lending more than its resources permit...
...most daunting task facing Nakasone is not so much improving the military as altering postwar Japanese perceptions about defense. The Prime Minister will have little success in bolstering forces until he convinces his people that rearmament will not lead to a fresh wave of militarism. Anyone who doubts that the Japanese are still distrustful of their soldiers need only go by the defense agency's headquarters in downtown Tokyo. Most officers travel to work in civilian clothes and change into uniforms in rented rooms near the compound. "The people have yet to accept us fully," explains an officer. "Memories...
Over the centuries the Japanese have adopted many Chinese words, though the two languages remained entirely separate. Nor was Chinese the only foreign element. Portuguese missionaries later introduced pan (bread), and Dutch traders biiru (beer). Then came the tidal wave of English. Some of these Japanized words filled a practical need (takushi, taxi, or rajio, radio), while some were primarily fashionable (kohi-shoppu, coffee shop...