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...also writes novels. Hawaiian-born, U.S.-educated and a veteran of the Japanese army, he made his U.S. fiction debut in 1950 with Long the Imperial Way, a ploddingly serious novel about Japanese infantrymen. To his publishers, at least, the book set Tasaki up as "the principal interpreter of present-day Japan to the United States...
...hypocrisy of self-righteousness" for present-day Democrats to claim themselves as true liberals. "Every move they make to circumvent the spirit of the Constitution, every move they make to centralize political power, every move they make to curtail and suppress individual liberty is reaction in its most extreme form . . . The framers of the Constitution were the most liberal thinkers of all the ages . . . Their concept held to the primacy of the individual's interest; that of our present leadership to the predominance of the state...
...Appointed a committee to consider whether the wording of the Lord's Prayer should be changed from "Forgive us our debts" (Presbyterian usage) to "Forgive us our sins"* or a "similar phrase." The motion to change came from the Nebraska City Presbytery, which argued that present-day Christians "stand in need of an incessant reminder of the implications of sin and the need for forgiveness...
...other side of town are the two Whitney farms, impressive examples of well-heeled private operations which have been family-owned for generations. Adjoining them is Elmendorf Farm, an important breeding establishment since 1871. Sprawling over 500 hilly acres, through woods and along North Elkhorn Creek, the present-day Elmendorf is the heart of what was once a vast 9,800-acre tract owned by James Ben Ali Haggin, fabulous copper baron. A farm of such scope could not exist in tax-ridden 1952, but most Lexington breeders are content to stress quality-and hope that the racing boom lasts...
...conclusion I wish to set Mr. Kameny straight on one point, and that is that the U.S. Army is not at a peacetime level; only a person of extremely vivid imagination, or no imagination at all, could possibly construe the present-day situation as falling into the category of "peacetime." Richard A. Burr