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Replying to reports that she is on chilly terms with her imperial sister-in-law, ex-Princess Suga, an emperor's daughter who six months ago married a bank clerk, insisted that she has never felt closer to Crown Princess Michiko, a mill owner's daughter who married the heir to an empire. Suga, who is delighted with the freedom she has found outside the palace as plain Mrs. Hisanaga Shimazu, sympathizes with Michiko in her struggle to observe palace protocol, feels that Michiko is "working too hard" in her efforts to live up to her role. Suga...
...Massapoag mill on the outskirts of the little North Carolina court house town of Lincolnton (pop. 5,423) looks like many another small Southern textile mill from its brick exterior. But aside from tobacco-juice stains splashed liberally about on its floor inside, the plant of the Long Shoals Cotton Mills, Inc. (projected 1960 sales: $2,500,000) is different from any other in the nation. Its solid rows of pastel blue machines bear the stamp "0-M Spinning Machine, Osaka, Japan." Massapoag is the first mill in the U.S. to be completely fitted with Japanese-made spinning equipment. Standing...
...born, the cause of woman suffrage was still far from realization, and the notion of a woman serving in the U.S. Senate seemed as remote as the moon. Maggie was the eldest of six children of George and Carrie Chase, a working-class couple in Skowhegan, the picturesque mill town on the Kennebec. George operated a one-chair barbershop with a gilt-framed mirror and a shelf of personal shaving mugs for his regular customers. The family lived next door in a maple-shaded, five-room frame house, and as a small girl, Maggie learned how to shave...
...Last week, after a long spell of foot dragging, the Dollarway school board at the segregationist stronghold of Pine Bluff (pop. 40,000) got up its nerve, and in minimum compliance with a 1959 federal court order, hand-picked six-year-old Delores Jean York, daughter of a Negro mill hand, to enter the first grade of the all-white Dollarway public school. "First-graders," the board said hopefully, "do not have prejudices and fixed ideas concerning traditions to the extent that older students have." But if first-graders had no formal prejudices, Governor Faubus had. In the same kind...
While they were honeymooning, In the mansion on the hill, Kind hands were laying Nellie To rest, behind the mill...