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Premier Shigeru Yoshida, a barnacle-encrusted politician of 76, packed his beloved haori, hakama and tabi (ceremonial jacket, loose pants, split-toed white socks), put on his dark pin-stripe suit and wing collar, and whisked out to Tokyo's airport this week to begin a grand tour of North America and Europe...
...Narrow but safe," breathed a relieved Yoshida supporter. Having again proved himself the most powerful man in Japan, Yoshida climbed into his black Chrysler to motor back to his Oiso retreat, there to take off his wing collar and brown business suit, slip into a comfortable kimono and white tabi, and contemplate his forthcoming trip to the U.S. and Europe...
Nostalgic G.I.s in the audience licked their PX ice cream cones and marveled that a man could be so close to home 6,000 miles away. Their tabi-soxer* friends chewed gum (U.S. style) and snickered (Japanese style) at the strange way some of their sisters made a living...
...other of our party go to Belize with Malaria, I will go to a site on Cozumel and there visit Xharel again as well as Chaemaltun near Ascension Pay. There the boat will get Mason and he and I will go from Lab Cruz to a place called Tabi, southeast of Lba Cruz, and to Saban and possibly to Kabia oast of Valladolid. Large mounds and temples are said to exist here. It seems perfectly safe so far as the Indians are concerned, and we plan to carry on work here...