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...only last week, 17 years and nine months after the rioting, that the Tokyo district court finally ended its trial of 261 people who were accused of taking part. It was the longest-running case in Japanese judicial history. When Judge Seirokuro Hamaguchi, 62, offered the opinion that the case had not violated the constitutional guarantee of "a speedy and public trial," several angry defendants shouted "Bakayaro!" (Idiot) from the dock...
...grip of the longest bear market since World War II. Stocks have dropped almost steadily for 13 months, and in that time the listed shares held by 26 million Americans have been cut by $158 billion. Last week the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 31 points, to 744, bringing the market to its lowest point since November 1963, just after President Kennedy was assassinated. The decline was democratic. Du Pont scraped a 15-year low. U.S. Steel traded at its 1954 level. Control Data and University Computing, among other recent glamour stocks, lost ten points or more each...
...revisionists say, has become the imperialistic aggressor of the cold war, while the Soviet Union, even under Stalin, is seen as essentially cautious and realistic. In The Tragedy of American Diplomacy and more recently in The Roots of the Modern American Empire, William Appleman Williams -perhaps the longest-practicing revisionist-contends that the American pursuit of an open-door policy has brought it into conflict with nations around the world. Williams interprets every act of U.S. diplomacy in the light of his neo-Marxist conviction that capitalism must always expand in search of new markets. Thus the U.S., while claiming...
...recommit itself to another round in a war that many think has gone on too long already. Or it can evacuate all Americans and let South Viet Nam stand or fall alone. Neither alternative is reassuring to Richard Nixon, the man responsible for extricating the U.S. from its longest...
...spring the sunshine, and the better horses come up from Florida. Suffolk Downs will open on April 4 this year. A few subway stops on the MBTA beyond Airport, the Downs offers the best in New England racing. Last year Bill Veeck of St. Louis Browns fame staged the longest and biggest ($200,000 added) turf race in America, Veeck also gave away prizes to the fans- a steer, a horse, champagne, and free dinners at MacDonalds...