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Relieved of Duty. Though most of Japan's aged continue to live with their children, particularly in rural areas, many others have been shunted into bleak housing projects or crowded nursing homes. "Both my sons have one-room homes and are married," explains Mrs. Take Kikuchi, a diminutive widow of 70, who lives in a nursing home on the outskirts of Tokyo. "I shuttled endlessly between them, but at last the message was so deafening that I had to leave them and come here." Adds Kotaro Uchida, 88, a retired Tokyo printer: "My son after the war told...
...when he was 25, Albert Camus scrapped this novel and began writing The Stranger, one of the half-dozen most celebrated first novels of the century. Last year, a decade after he was killed in an automobile crash, his widow allowed this forerunner to be published in France, and it has now been admirably translated into English by Richard Howard...
...life. The five or six stages that Malcolm went through in formulating his final philosophy are boiled down to two or three. But given the constraints under which the filmmakers had to work, they've put together a documentary that has the approval of Betty Shabazz, Malcolm's widow. What emerges from the film is a telling illustration of the cause and effect relationship between black life and black militancy...
...government responded to Miralles' call for judicial reform by clapping him in jail last month on charges of contempt. His offense was having defended the widow of a construction worker who had been killed during leftist strikes last year. Miralles argued that the widow was entitled to state compensation because her husband had been shot in the back by the Guardia Civil, Franco's paramilitary police force. A military court ruled that Miralles' defense had insulted the Guardia Civil and constituted "illegal propaganda...
...sort of counter-memorial, another Mass was offered in Appleton by a different group of 125 McCarthy friends headed by the Senator's widow Jean, now Mrs. G. Joseph Minetti of Washington, D.C. She disavowed any connection with the McCarthy Foundation, sniffing: "Who are they? Birchers?" A more intriguing question: What would the old Red-baiter say if he knew that his memorial fell between a presidential visit to China and a summit meeting in Russia-and nearly coincided with a U.S. assault on a Communist enemy in North Viet Nam? "Point of order, Mr. Chairman," no doubt...