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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Ironically, Asanuma was largely responsible for creating the atmosphere of violence that has recently plagued Japanese politics. A rabble-rouser who never tired of praising Red China, or of calling the U.S. "the common enemy of China and Japan," Asanuma organized the snake-dancing demonstrations that kept President Eisenhower away from Japan last June. Since then, ex-Premier Nobusuke Kishi and Socialist Jotaro Kawakami have both been stabbed by fanatics. This did not deter the Socialists from launching further violent demonstrations. Crying "Down with Ikeda," left-wing Zengakuren students charged police barricades at the Diet, began their ritualistic snake dance...
...internal carotid supplies only two main branches. But, said Dr. Kirgis, about 14% of all brains studied at autopsy show the internal carotid still feeding three branch arteries on one side of the brain, and in a few cases this is true on both sides. A hemorrhage or, more common, a clot in the internal carotid of such people is apt to do far more damage than in people of normal arterial development, because there is a greater bottleneck for blood supply to essential areas...
...press followers. Four years ago, when Nixon was stumping for President Eisenhower's and his own reelection, the press corps flew in the same plane, mixed in easy camaraderie with a Nixon who regularly emerged, sometimes in pajamas, for bantering strolls down the aisle. Background conferences were common; at them the Vice President frequently confided headline-making information that the newsmen could use without identifying the source...
...opening night their repertory-or their improvisations-came at times from the common hoard of satire and seemed aimed at the common herd. But even with phone-booth frustrations or bear-hugging mothers, with Tennessee Williams-type drama or the P.T.A., there were happy surprises. In fact, by combining the last two themes-by having Elaine act as P.T.A. chairman for an evening of Art and Mike act as the Southern playwright speaker-they reached the evening's peak. They reached it partly, perhaps, because each did a monologue in his own uninterrupted, unblurred style. When the two play...
...limits," especially his own: "My gifts are small. I've used them very well and discreetly, never straining them; and the result is that I've made a charming little reputation." Bigness, grandiose gestures, Utopian schemes, monumental successes not only terrified Max; they affronted his household god, common sense...