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...Virginia Polytechnic Institute dropout now on his way to becoming a millionaire (he was the first in the business to put boards on plastic wheels). Sophisticated models cost upwards of $40, v. $5 or so for the skateboards of a decade ago. The new boards, bearing names like Freestyle, Banzai and Road Rider, come in psychedelic colors and have fueled a satellite industry manufacturing accessories such as T shirts (often with top pros' names on them), bikinis, special crepe-soled sandals and souped-up axles. Four skateboarding movies have been made, and SkateBoarder, a magazine that went...
...attack as a glorious victory in the lost war. But Japanese officials are apprehensive about the possibility of an overeffusive welcome for the Emperor by the 15,000 Japanese nationals and 208,000 Japanese Americans who live in Hawaii. They are particularly unsettled by the prospect of cheers of "Banzai!" as the imperial DC-8 lands at Honolulu's Hickam Air Force Base...
...fall of 1934, as members of America's touring all-star baseball team arrived at Tokyo Station, crowds of Japanese fans began to cheer: "Banzai, Babe Ruth! Banzai, Lou Gehrig! Banzai, Jimmy Foxx! . . . Banzai, Moe Berg...
Like his predecessors, Private Teruo Nakamura was motivated to hold out both by fear of capture and fidelity to orders. After a final banzai charge against invading U.S. troops failed in January 1945, radio contact between Tokyo and Morotai was lost. Nakamura, who was separated from other members of his commando unit, managed to avoid capture and built a grass hut deep in the jungle. He survived by raising potatoes and picking bananas off the trees. "My commanding officer told me to fight it out," he explained. Last month he was spotted by a Morotai native, who alerted Indonesian authorities...
...course, Carter is taking courses at the law school. Now, if Willie Draper, the last Crimson skier to place high at the NCAA finals could only be convinced to return from the Banzai Pipeline...