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There are three such viruses, distinguished by numbers.* Parainfluenza 1 was first called Sendai virus, after the Japanese city where it was originally isolated. It is close enough kin to the true flu viruses to have once been called influenza D. It has now been found around the world. At one time or another, nearly every child in the U.S. gets infected with paraflu 1, and the illness is most likely to be severe in the very young. The resulting antibody may last a lifetime, but gives only partial immunity: an adult can be reinfected with the same virus, though...
Archbishop Peter Tatsuo Doi, 67, was born at Sendai, Japan, was baptized a Christian at twelve, ordained at the age of 28, and appointed Archbishop of Tokyo 16 years later. The church has been losing ground in Japan for lack of Japanese priests and trained personnel, and the Vatican hopes that a Japanese cardinal will stimulate the faith in Japan as well as rally Roman Catholics elsewhere in Asia...
...annual convention of the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association in Sendai City, the nation's top newsmen gladdened the hearts of the geisha by spending yen as if they were sen. It was expense account money, handed out by their hard-pressed business offices with orders to spend it as conspicuously as possible. The object: to achieve the utmost face and to give the impression that Japanese newspapers were doing just great...
...face-saving in Sendai City, 190 miles north of Tokyo, was a symptom of the ills that have turned Japan's press into a flabby-muscled giant. The 186 Japanese dailies have built up a daily circulation of nearly 36 million, trail only the U.S. (58 million) and Russia (57 million), exceed the rest of Asia, Africa and South America combined. In ratio to population, the Japanese circulation approximates that of the U.S., far exceeds Russia's. Biggest Japanese daily is Tokyo's outsized Asahi, which has four regional publishing plants and a staff of more than...
Payment Deferred. In Sendai, Japan, Gennosuke Ikeda was arrested after an auto salesman called on him to collect payment on a car, was served a cup of poisoned...