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...trucks and forcing Sukarno to send helicopters to pick up his Cabinet ministers for the swearing-in ceremony. Nervous guards fired into one group, killing three students. That brought on a second mob scene, with 100,000 students-led by yellow-shirted members of the Indonesian Student Action Command (KAMI)-lining the five-mile funeral route. Sukarno retaliated by outlawing KAMI, declaring a curfew, and forbidding groups of five or more to meet in Djakarta. With that, he retreated behind machine guns to Merdeka Palace to await developments...
...shop's aged proprietor, Polish Actress Ida Kamińska, cannot comprehend Tono's function and assumes that he has been sent by the kindly government to be her assistant. She needs help; instead of being a rich source of profit, the shop consists of a few dozen empty button boxes, and only Jewish charity keeps it going. A deep affection grows up between the little carpenter and the woman-with which the movie begins to grow less funny. The climax comes with a roundup of Jews for the concentration camps. Should Tono risk hiding his friend...
...were restricted to certain specialized skills, such as carving, lacquering, throwing clay, screening silk. And during lifetimes of limited expression, they became surpassing experts at their narrow specialty. For example, etna, often painted reliefs of white horses, were Shinto offerings that recall live horses dedicated to the god spirit Kami, who rode a sacred horse while blessing his worshipers. Ema horses were bought for a song and were left in temples; but they were executed with such extraordinary craftsmanship that they are today treasured as works...
Into Hospitals? Michael J. Kami, director of long-range planning for IBM, does not narrow IBM's range to the computer business, believes his firm is in "the problem-solving business"-and acts on that philosophy in his planning. Because the forward planners at A. T. & T. view the company as an all-embracing communications service instead of just a telephone operator, the company had a plan for space communications soon after Sputnik went up-and launched Telstar last year. Working on the theory that "1970 starts today," General Electric has set up a colony of 300 planners...
...Gods. The hordes of New-Year worshipers will accurately measure the striking comeback made by one of the world's oldest-and at one time most ominous-religions. Vaguely animistic. Shinto (which means "the way of the gods") is based on a belief in the divine efficacy of Kami (deities). By worshiping the Kami -which include everything from a believer's ancestors to the wind and the trees...