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TIME often serves as a chronicler of history. But sometimes we are reminded that the magazine has a rich history of its own. Recently, for instance, Lieut. Commander Stephen White found a plaque in a Navy storeroom in Yokosuka, Japan. "Bill Chickering Theater. In Memory of William Henry Chickering," it read. "TIME War Correspondent Killed in Action Aboard the U.S.S. New Mexico. Luzon, P.I. January 1945." He wrote to Paul E. Wilson, a professor of naval science at the University of New Mexico, who contacted us. Intrigued, we went to the Time Inc. archives and retrieved the memory...
...decisions are given unquestioned priority over commercial and other concerns. This has been especially true when it comes to Japan given that the Pentagon looks at Japan as an "an unsinkable aircraft carrier" in the Far East where we have placed premium value on base rights at Camp Zama, Yokosuka, Yokota, Misawa, Iwakuni and throughout Okinawa Prefecture. While not every Japanese is fond of U.S. bases on Japanese soil, the deal has been sweetened by virtually throwing open the U.S. market to Japanese goods...
...fraternities formed by Japanese businesses. But in June 1986 the Naval Investigative Service adopted a new tactic when it began probing the Star Friendship Association, a consortium of 160 Japanese construction firms organized for the express purpose of raising prices on contracts at the huge U.S. naval base in Yokosuka...
...falling-out with one of the companies in the group, agreed to wear a hidden microphone at its meetings. The club operated with almost comic formality. A day or two after new contracts were announced by the Navy, the group would meet in downtown Yokosuka. "They would determine who was interested in bidding on specific contracts," says a U.S. official. "Then they would break up into smaller groups to decide who would get the award...
Back came a six-page letter from McCloskey, who now works as a lawyer in Palo Alto, Calif. In January 1951 he left San Diego on the U.S.S. Breckinridge along with Robertson and some 2,000 other Marines. The ship stopped at Yokosuka and Kobe, Japan; Robertson did not continue on to Korea. "My single distinct memory," McCloskey wrote, "is of Pat, with a big grin on his face, standing on the dock . . . saying something like, 'So long, you guys -- good luck,' and telling us that his father (Democratic Senator A. Willis Robertson) had got him out of combat duty...