Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Japanese-who hold to the characteristically Oriental belief that if the majority of a group wants a rifle and a determined minority insists on no rifle, the proper solution is to get half a rifle-Kishi's entirely legal maneuver constituted a heinous sin known as "the tyranny of the majority." And to compound this offense, Kishi had so arranged things that, if the Diet were still in session, the treaty would automatically be ratified on the day of Dwight Eisenhower's scheduled arrival. To many Japanese this seemed entirely too much like truckling...
...group of New Jersey Democratic leaders promised Kennedy that they would deliver 35 of the state's 41 votes on "request." When the New York Times leaked the story, Governor Robert Meyner denied it, but the Democratic bigwigs promptly reconfirmed...
...leading newspapers had shown evidence of remorse by issuing a joint statement warning: "We believe any social trend that approves of violence will lead to destruction of democracy." One leading Socialist, Mrs. Shizue Kato, spoke up in belated alarm: "The battle of the Diet was planned by a small group run by a subversive ideology. As a Socialist, I wish to apologize deeply to the nation for having been too cowardly these past weeks to say what I knew was right...
...Ascmuma, 63, chairman of the Socialist Party. A gravel-voiced orator as round as he is tall (weight: 225 Ibs.), Asanuma is admiringly called "the man locomotive." Thick-headed as well as hamhanded, Asanuma graduated from W'aseda University and promptly became a labor agitator. When a minority group of moderates bolted the party last November because of disgust with the Socialist leadership's parroting of the Communist line, Asanuma was elected chairman of the remainder. Before the split, the Socialists polled a total of 13 million votes, v. 23 million for Kishi's Democratic Liberals...
...construction since 1956 and is sched uled to be completed this fall. It would be the first big U.S. plant with a fast-breeder reactor, the type most likely to produce competitively cheap atomic power, since it produces more atom fuel than it consumes. At AEC hearings, a group of top scientists, led by Professor Hans A. Bethe of Cornell, testified that the plant could be operated without undue risk to the public. City officials of Monroe said they welcomed the plant. AEC is expected to appeal the three-man court's decision to a nine-man court...