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...village on the green, indented western tip of Honshu, Japan's main island. His scholarly attainments won him a job with the aristocratic Sato family, and he tutored their eldest daughter, Moyo, in Chinese literature. He was permitted to marry Moyo on condition that he change his name to Sato and, for the remainder of his life, was so much under his wife's thumb that he made little impression on their ten children. The Prime Minister was the second son of Hidesuke and Moyo. In 1958, a quarter-century after the death of his parents, he recalled...
...father's footsteps as a yoshi. A marriage was arranged for him with his cousin Yoshiko, the daughter of his father's brother. Although the marriage did not take place for another seven years (Yoshiko was only eleven at the time), Nobusuke resumed his father's name of Kishi and was stricken from the Sato family register...
This provision is already bypassed in a typical Japanese fashion. The 170,000 Japanese soldiers already under arms are referred to as a "Ground Self-Defense Force," not as an army. Similarly, a division is called an "area unit," and a tank, a "special combat vehicle." But, under whatever name, Japan's armed forces are small, and required to make do on less than 2% of the nation's gross national product. Pacifism is so ingrained in the new Japan that not even Kishi is likely in the foreseeable future to get more money or more...
...woman who asked, 'Why did we have to purchase Louisiana, when we got all the other states free?' I explained to her that Louisiana was owned by two women -Louise and Anna Wilmot-and that they sold it to General Winfield Scott, provided he'd name it after them. This was called the Wilmot Proviso, and his closing of the deal was the Dred Scott decision. She answered, 'Never mind the details! Why did we let them talk us into...
...Countdown. It all began in 1957 when the null people of Brigham City heard without much interest that an East Coast outfit with a peculiar name, Thiokol Chemical Corp., planned to build some sort of plant on a nearby desert. Few realized that the newcomer would turn their isolated, sheep-and-sugar-beet town into a booming center of U.S. rocketry. Today the rocket plant's employees number more than 3,000, flood Brigham City's roads with traffic and its schools with children. Ranch-style homes for engineers, chemists, physicists and mathematicians are spreading into the beet...