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...Manila last week, Shizuo Yokoyama, now 68 and tuberculous, plodded up a gangway, bowing and smiling, and boarded the Japanese steamer Hakusan Mam. With him on the way to Japan were 105 other war criminals, the last of the Japanese invaders to leave the Philippines. They too were a far different-looking lot from the domineering Japanese soldiers who once lorded over and terrorized the Filipino populace, and left behind 91,180 noncombatant Filipino dead. In a surprise amnesty, President Quirino (now in Baltimore's Johns Hopkins hospital) had commuted 56 death sentences to life imprisonment in Japan...
...bridge of the 18,000-ton tanker Nissho Mam as she steamed into Tokyo Bay stood Captain Tatsuo Nitta, flashing a gold-toothed smile. He had just completed a three-week voyage from Abadan, bringing to Japan her first petroleum shipment (15,300 long tons of diesel oil and automobile gasoline) from Premier Mossadegh's nationalized oilfields. At a special introductory price averaging 5.35^ a gallon, he had quite a bargain. Waiting to receive Skipper Nitta at the Kawasaki dock was a cluster of Iranian traders...
Fasting for Impurity. Bernarr and Mary traveled a good deal. It was on a trip to France that Bernarr composed the mam 'hymn" of his "religion of happiness," which he taught his disciples to bellow to the tune of Jingle Bells...
...cries and rages, complains of a sense of paralysis in her painting arm. But her pictures have no moods. They are as studied and frigidly precise as geometrical progressions: brilliant, carefully plotted blocks lines and dashes done in endless variation with a few primary hues. Pereira's mam effort since the war: painting simple patterns on layers of fluted and rippled glass, then placing these one on top of the other so that the refracted light jabs through as a dazzling, and sometimes eye-straining, spectrum...
...diagnosis and detection of cancer. All of these things were on his mind at the airport. Said he: "You see how very important work is, especially work you want to finish. You cherish friendships more than ever. You recognize hat affection, good will and love are the mam things. And family, the ones who are so close...