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...rash of corruption. Under Yoshida the country did not begin until last year the gestures of discipline and austerity that were needed. The gestures helped-only eight months ago economists were predicting total economic collapse. But gestures are far from enough. Japan needs an austerity at least as stringent as Britain and West Germany went through, and it needs a leader whose government will tug at the belt until it bends the very national backbone...
...fire law in question is a statute under the Massachusetts Department of Public Safety forbidding open flames in public places. "The law is minimal," State Inspector George A. Cormey said yesterday; "the City of Cambridge can make it more stringent, but not less...
...clad women to weatherbeaten farmers, all hopeful of making a few quick yen. After a year of falling prices, the Tokyo stock market suddenly turned around, gained 10% last week alone. Reasons: there were prospects of trade with Red China, and the new Hatoyama caretaker government promised a less stringent austerity program, announced plans to reduce taxes on corporate dividends...
Riegger: Symphony No. 3 (Eastman-Rochester Symphony conducted by Howard Hanson; Columbia). Manhattan's Composer Wallingford Riegger, 69, was one of the "bad boys" of the 20s, and his symphony makes abundant use of tone clusters then fashionable. He is also interested in more stringent twelve-tone technique, and dips into that idiom every now and then. The work, which won the New York Music Critics Circle Award (1947-48), is full of dissonance, but consistently strong and appealing...
...recently as 1949, Tito would have had to order me jailed or executed. But in 1954, with it publicly known that I stand in opposition to Tito, the worst that can happen is that I will be banished from Belgrade. Yugoslav public opinion would not permit anything more stringent today...