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...gave way to more active pursuits. With the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Tokyo came into its own. It assumed the status of seat of government, as well as its new name, which means simply Eastern Capital. It has dwelt for nearly two decades beneath a cloud of dust that hid its expansion-a trebling growth that took the city's 3,500,000 population at war's end to a current 10.6 million. In the process Japan became the world's fifth largest and Asia's only industrial power. Five years ago, when Tokyo...
...secret. It was a dinner for Jackie Kennedy and trustees of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library. Perhaps never before have so many celebrities gathered with so little fanfare. The President's route from the airport was not made public, and most of his companions all but hid their faces behind newspapers as they rushed into the St. Regis Hotel. Among them were Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Arthur Goldberg, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Anthony Celebrezze. Also on hand was a galaxy of diversified doers: International...
...Testing by the Indiana Employment Security Division showed that more than a tenth of the men had forgotten-or never knew-how to read and write with any skill. One cook, for example, had memorized the first letter of each item on the menu, and thus hid his illiteracy; his downfall came when the boss ordered him to get some wine and he could not read the labels. The first step, for many, had to be elementary schooling...
...deprived of rights. On one occasion when he was ten years old, he was playing in a playground near his house when a policeman drove up and jumped out of his prowl car brandishing a gun. "All of us little colored boys ran like chickens," King recalls. "I hid under a building but some of the kids were arrested for 'vagrancy' or 'loitering.' Right then I felt that there was something wrong with the way the law operated in the Negro community. It was the symbol of the kind of force which I couldn't reconcile with what was right...
WHEN THE CHEERING STOPPED, by Gene Smith. During the last 17 months of his presidency, Woodrow Wilson was crippled mentally and physically by a stroke, but his wife hid his true condition. Reporter Smith re-creates the time and assesses the political effects of the long hiatus in the White House...