Word: yokohama
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...your column only in the hope that you will not sleep at night." An American film exhibitor in Tokyo, infuriated by Ricketts' reviews, made him a standing offer of free air passage home; when Ricketts allowed that he found Elvis Presley's "hiccuping" intolerable, students at Yokohama High School wrathfully formed a Send Al Ricketts to Mars Club. Recently, the irate husband of a belly dancer whose abdomen Ricketts had impugned challenged the columnist to a duel; Ricketts escaped the field of honor by inviting his prospective adversary to even the score by insulting Mrs. Ricketts...
...Doorman's next scheduled stop was a courtesy call at Yokohama to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the establishment of Japanese-Dutch diplomatic relations. Indonesian officials wept publicly at the idea. Foreign Minister Subandrio declared he was disappointed in the Japanese, who, he had thought, sympathized with Indonesia's efforts to create "a new world free from suppression and misery." Indonesia forthwith threatened to break relations with Japan, and declared that a $20 million contract to buy Japanese textiles was "in danger." Japanese Socialists pronounced the visit "utterly intolerable," and the Zengakuren student federation threatened demonstrations. Last week...
...canceled $250,000 worth of orders from Japan; a Miami firm sent back 800 Japanese radios in stock. Ohio's Independent Products Corp. canceled an order for 1,700 Japanese bicycles, and Oklahoma City's Bentley Wholesale Co. for 20,000 yards of Japanese carpet. In Yokohama the rubbermaking firm of Hodogaya laid off 288 of its 420 workers after 13 U.S. firms canceled orders for rubber slippers. Two U.S. associations of ceramic importers shot off angry letters to Japan protesting the treatment of Eisenhower. And Elmer Proctor, director of Metasco, the importing division of big (85 department...
...businessmen were evidently worried over hostile U.S. reaction. Their great fear is that the riots may spur moves to restrict Japanese exports to the U.S., now totaling more than $1 billion a year, at a time when many U.S. rivals are concerned at the inroads of cheaper Japanese goods. Yokohama Chamber of Commerce President Shogo Tanaka sent a letter of apology to the Chambers of Commerce of 30 U.S. cities for "the mob demonstrations fanned by a leftist minority." Japanese toymakers, who sell $50 million worth of toys to the U.S. each year, wrote directly to President Eisenhower expressing "heartfelt...
...Jersey's Seton Hall University told the meeting that the cowpox virus (used in smallpox vaccine) kills some cancer cells and retards the growth of mouse cancers. For once, medical scientists did not have to wait years to get evidence of a similar effect in man. By coincidence, Yokohama University's Professor Yoshikuni Noguchi reported simultaneously that he was getting encouraging though temporary results in treating skin cancers (especially on the face and hands) with smallpox vaccine...