Tokyo the Great City of Chaos and Resilience
Tokyo is described as the world's largest city by population with chaotic traffic and few street names. The piece recalls postwar rebuilding, rapid growth, and a neon nightlife, though critics note crowding, heat, and heavy reliance on food culture and maps for foreigners. The core message highlights Tokyo's resilience through disaster and daily life fueled by its people.
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Tokyo
UPI
Australia
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Imperial Japan
Minneapolis
Chicago
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel Opened as Highway Wonder
The 200 million, 17.6 mile Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel opened in Norfolk Virginia with officials calling it one of the highway world’s wonders. ALA executive secretary Philip C. Wallwork predicted the route would rival the Grand Canyon as a tourist draw. The project spans 12.2 miles of trestle, two bridges and two tunnels, linking Virginia's Eastern Shore to the Hampton Roads area and ending ferries’ water barrier on U S 13 and 17.
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Boston
Chesapeake Bay
ALA
Norfolk
Philip C. Wallwork
Automobile Legal Association
Grand Canyon
Wallwork
Ocean Hiway Association
U.S. 13 & 17
Florida
Virginia
Hampton Roads
Folk Singer Joins Tax Protest Against Military Spending
Joan Baez refused to pay 60 percent of her income tax in protest of federal military expenditures. In a letter to the IRS, she said she does not believe in war and called weapons of war dehumanizing. Baez stated she would not volunteer the 60 percent of her income tax that goes to armaments.
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Palo Alto
Calif
UPID
Joan Baez
Miss Baez
Internal Revenue Service
Ira Sandperl
Northeast Odd Fellows Conclave Scheduled in Burlington
The Northeast Odd Fellows Association Conclave will be held in Burlington June 26 and 27. A parade features floats bands and the Black Watch Highlanders from Montreal. International leaders and Miss Vermont 1964 are expected. governor of Vermont likely attends. Banquet tickets available. badges required for all activities and housing reservations via Miss Frances Goodale.
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Burlington
Northeast
Odd Fellows Association
Black Watch Highlanders
Montreal
George Holcomb
Meadow Road
South Burlington
Shelburne Museum
Odd Fellowship
Vermont
Cora Howes
Winooski St
Waterbury
Marion Sabins
Box 385
Bellows Falls
F. H. DeThestrup
Main St
Beatrice Dever
Picardie St
Preville
Quebec
Northeast Odd Fellows Association
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Ernest Hoberecht
United Press International
Chesapeake Bay Bridge
English Channel
Italy
Key Largo
Key West -Lake Pontchartrain
Louisiana -Mackinac
Michigan
Upper
Lower Peninsulas
Blue Ridge Mountains
Newenauer
Blondie
B.C
By Bob Schulz
JohNny Hart
By Chie Young
Steve Canyon
Col. Canyon
REDS
Heart of
Juliet Jones
Farthing
Minnie
Milton Caniff
Laree Palomino
U.S
By Stan Drake
Nottingham
Robin Hool
Merrie Men
Puurit Kelvinator
Kelvinator
Tor
Fienberg
Bennington
Or ‘Sa
Beneficial
Beneficial Finance Co
Main Street
Knapp
Walbridge-Knapp Insurance
Walbridge- Knapp
J.H. Walbridge
R.R. Knapp
R.P. Betit Bennington, Vt
Odd Fellows
Frances Goodale
Tracy Drive
Bennington, VT
Long John Importing Company
New York
Gyn & Fem Am
Howard
Sted
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