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...Emperor was not permitted to see his grandson for 48 hours, but sent traditional gifts-a papier-máché dog with amulet to ward off diseases, a wooden doll to symbolize the coming of a "heavenly child," a seven-inch "sword of protection" wrapped in red brocade. At the Naming Ceremony, a chamberlain presented the Emperor with a specially woven sheet of paper containing the three possible names submitted by the grand chamberlain (final choice: Naruhito Hironomiya). It was almost as if nothing had changed since Akihito himself was born 27 years...
...Army Lieut. Irvin Roberson, 24, onetime star Cornell halfback, jumped 25 ft. 9½ in. to break Jesse Owens' 25-year-old indoor broad-jump record by half an inch...
...other cases, where there is no detectable cause such as infection, the prostate may become gradually enlarged-from a little more than an inch long by i% in. broad to double or triple its normal size. A year may elapse before painful or difficult urination, backache, testicular pain or sexual impotence sends the victim to his doctor. At this stage, the already enlarged prostate is especially vulnerable to secondary infection. Once this infection has been cleared, surgery is the usual answer-and mandatory in the 10% to 15% of cases where cancer has developed...
...Every Inch a Sailor (Oscar Brand; Elektra, mono and stereo). Guitarist Brand offers a largely unprintable tour through the racier passages of Navy mythology in a series of songs sung by the fleet in World War II-Guantanamo Bay, Subdivision Nine, Zamboanga. The cast of female characters includes such wonders as Miss VD of Guam: "Admiral Nimitz gave the order/ Better keep your noses clean/ But Miss VD was waiting/ Like a bloody sex machine...
...race. Marx wrote: "The Communists seek to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class," but any bright boy of the commissar caste should have a good laugh over this. If he fails to make a grade, he disappears without appeal into the grey unprivileged proletarian mass below. Inch by inch, his nose ever clean, he works through the Comsomols (Communist youth groups) and elementary science instruction, through the barracks and blackboards of his Marxist monastery to emerge at last a card-carrying member of the managerial class...