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JAPAN. A striking alignment of the old with the new in Japanese culture: Masayuki Nagare's magnificent hand-carved stone wall encloses motorcycles, microscopes and a model of the world's fastest train; the delicate arts of the tea ceremony and flower arranging take place alongside an impressive array of technological savvy...
...than the South and West, partly because those regions have more room for expansion. Last year, personal income ran from 4% to 5% higher in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. These highly developed regions stand to fare better in the future. The Labor Department recently predicted that the fastest-growing businesses during the last half of the 1960s will be construction, electronics, publishing, trucking, retail and wholesale trade-precisely those sectors in which the Northeast is strongest...
...Chicago's Tom O'Hara in the mile run at the Compton, Calif., Relays. Burleson was clocked in 3 min. 57.4 sec., and the next seven finishers all cracked 4 min. too. Wichita's Jim Ryun, 17, came in eighth at 3 min. 59 sec.-fastest time ever recorded by a high school miler...
...about town, or new to it, know the Empire State Building is only a second feature. So are Shea Stadium, Madison Square Garden, the Statue of Liberty, the Guggenheim Museum, Radio City Music Hall and Central Park. For in New York City these days, the fastest, flashiest show around is at the corner of Broadway and 46th Street...
Sheets of Flame. Last week, the favorite won. The 33-car field was the fastest in 500 history. Driving a rear-engined Lotus-Ford, Scotland's Jimmy Clark roared through the first lap at 149.7 m.p.h., and other drivers strained to match his pace. One was too bold. On the second lap, drifting off Indy's No. 4 turn, Californian Dave MacDonald lost control of his Thompson-All-State Ford, spun crazily and smacked into the inside wall. In one horrible instant that none of the 300,000 spectators will ever forget, a sheet of flaming gas spread...