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...orchestra struck up some Ghanaian calypso tunes, and at one point Nkrumah grabbed bemedaled President Tubman and whirled him about the dance floor. Next night the Prime Minister threw even a bigger party-a two-hour show for 50,000 people in the Accra stadium that featured tumblers, army drill teams and Accra's hip-swinging, fat "Mammy Traders...
...such advisers, Kishi has chipped away at the Anglo-Saxon political concepts of Japan's 1946 "MacArthur Constitution." presses for at least a partial return to the hierarchical, authoritarian traditions native to Japan. By order of the Kishi government, Japanese schoolchildren will soon find themselves doing playground drill in the militaristic prewar fashion, and will be subjected to regular doses of "moral education...
...forces, helped them move their belongings into the neat, three-room concrete cottages on the spring-green Judean slopes. There was still the familiar hard readjustment: "I lived in a third-floor apartment-and now look," exclaimed a clerk from Budapest, thrusting out hands blistered by operating a pneumatic drill with a road-building crew. But now newcomers are guaranteed 250 days' work at regular wages instead of the old immigrant's dole, and promised their own individual plots to cultivate as soon as they reclaim enough land. And to get them further used to what life...
...troops, mostly hardy Sierra Maestra boys, are grouped in widely separated "columns" under captains. The men march in untidy ranks as much as 15 miles a day on the theory that standing still is perilous. There is no drill, no inspection, no radio communication, no headquarters. Four women march with the men: the wife of an imprisoned rebel, the widow of a rebel killed by cops, a girl once badly beaten by soldiers, a doctor's daughter. Dedicated to helping overthrow Batista, they cook, run messages, keep the force's slim records, guard its contributed funds...
...hitch: the command that Gable gets had previously been ticketed to Lieut. Burt Lancaster, who stays aboard as Gable's executive officer and makes no bones about his disappointment. What's more, the crew is in Lancaster's corner. When Gable pours on the drill, they fall to without a grumble, but when he ducks a Japanese submarine, they mutter that he is "running scared." And when Gable, in defiance of orders, heads for Bungo Strait, "the graveyard'' where at least four U.S. subs lie buried, a deputation waits on the exec and asks...