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...Anti-American? In the biggest of last week's Tokyo demonstrations, some 60,000 youngsters shouted, waved banners and threw stones outside the Diet build ing. The Premier was trapped for eight hours before he could slip out a back way. But most participants seemed to have only the vaguest idea of what they were protesting.-"The pact opens the path to fascism." explained one demonstrator vaguely. Girls shouting "Yankee go home" were shocked at the very suggestion that they were anti-American. Americans watching the demonstrations were never molested, and one "angry" crowd politely waited while a flustered...
Time was when all a woman needed was to slip on a pair of slacks and her husband's old shirt to play the casual. But with slacks and casual clothes now designed even for evening wear, the idea is to convert "casual" into a fashionable word no longer synonymous with "sloppy" and "convenient...
With the ousting of Syngman Rhee, the task of ensuring that South Korea did not slip from autocracy into anarchy fell upon the republic's Acting President and its top soldier. Both are able, honest and widely respected. And both have had personal experience of the arrogant maladministration that brought South Korea to its present pass...
While hereditary estates slip through his fingers, Don Fabrizio is still so much the autocrat of his own dinner table as to curl silver spoons into hoops with his powerful fist during gusts of paternal rage. His sons are sulky, his daughters mute and brittle. His pious, hysterical wife chills the prince's ardors by making the sign of the cross in bed. The lusty prince comforts himself with a peasant mistress in Palermo and scandalizes his docile confessor-in-residence by forcing the poor priest to come along for the nighttime carriage ride...
...strong is steel? That question preoccupies economists as well as bridge builders, makes the weekly figures on steel production among the most closely watched in the nation. Last week steel production was due to slip to below 80% of capacity for the first time in 1960, dropping for the fifth straight week...