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...growing realization that there is much unfinished business at home. Japan's per capita income of $1,560 is now the highest in Asia, but ranks only 14th in the free world. Japanese consumers can now afford what they call the three Cs?cooler (air conditioner), color television and car???that their U.S. and European counterparts also cherish. But Japan's economic miracle was financed by sacrificing needed social improvements in favor of industrial investment, which has been running at an annual rate of $28 billion. The average Japanese thus hears constantly about his country's affluence, but he wonders...
...Tours" feature a moving picture he had seen in Pittsburgh, The Great Train Robbery, by Edwin S. Porter. "Hale's Tours" was only a travelog ?kinetic scenes of Mont Blanc projected on a screen in a gallery which rocked and swayed to simulate the movement of an observation car???but The Great Train Robbery was a real story that ran for twelve minutes. You saw the bandits riding on their raid, the station agent working in his office. "Hale's Tours" was in debt and Zukor told Brady that moving pictures would make up its losses. Backed by Brady...
Watch Mr. Warner when the train leaves the station. He moves unobtrusively through his car???it may be the French Lake, Red Ridge, William Beaumont, Lake Drain, Alfred Nobel, Point Case, Christopher Wren, Glen Manor, Louis Pasteur, Cyrus Field, Edmund Halley?or any of 76 other names?doing small things for large people and quietly watching them, studying them, children and greybeards, ladies and gentlemen, to size them up in one of two Pullman-porters' categories...
...train gathered speed, they took up positions at the ends of each car???lolled negligently and talked to the brakemen and train guards. Suddenly one of the men whipped out a revolver and fired point-blank at the conductor of the train, who miraculously escaped being hit. At this signal more revolvers cracked, knives darted at the bewildered train guards, all of whom were killed...