Word: yama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presented the material to the official--Arthur E. Yama, one of Peabody group's co-chairmen and a student at the Design School-said he hopes the Corporation will reconsider the rent hikes at its meeting Monday...
Several Peabody tenants told Wiggins that even if Harvard is losing money on the apartments it should keep the rents down. "People simply can't afford the increases. They'll have to move," Irene Dawson, one of the meetings four organizers, said. Arthur E. Yama, another one of the four, said that it is a question of priorities and of who should make policy decisions involving the allocation of Harvard's money...
...payoff for them. "The more people come to share the barracks life with our troops, the more deeply will our organization be understood," says General Shoji Wada, commander of the central Japan military district. Company executives see an even more practical gain. In army camps, says Toshio Shiba-yama, director of Tokyo Mutual, "young people are bound to learn something about the vital importance of team work." This spring, for the third year in a row, Japan Air Lines sent its new crop of employees to an artillery camp. Company President Shizuma Matsuo calls it "an exceedingly effective means...
Next target was Eikichi Kambayashi-yama, director-general of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces. He was charged with ordering a lavish homecoming parade-replete with sake, flag-waving schoolchildren, and an official army band-when he returned to his prefecture on Kyushu in September. Kam-bayashiyama last week told the Diet's Cabinet committee: "I am sorry; I will humbly search my heart, and I will be more careful, hereafter." Though the opposition shrieked, "Shame on you! Resign! Resign!", the director-general did not quit...
...Even if Yama triumphs, there are other sure losers in the picture. The 33-year-old Empire State Building will no longer be able to call itself (with 102 floors, 1,248 ft.) the tallest building in the world,* will join such other has-beens as the Singer, the Woolworth and the Chrysler buildings. And one of Manhattan's beaux-arts monuments, the splendid old U.S. Customs House, designed in 1901 by Cass Gilbert, will lose its identity-and possibly its existence-as all customs operations are shifted to the World Trade Center. Progress in New York moves onward...