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Until Chemist Kenichi Fukui won a Nobel Prize in 1981 for his mathematical explanation of chemical reactions, he was more widely recognized abroad than at home. Indeed, when he first propounded his novel ideas 30 years ago, many of his Japanese colleagues scoffed...
...footsteps of his late father Karl Siegbahn, the 1924 laureate in physics.* The other half of the award will be shared equally by two Americans, Nicolaas Bloembergen, 61, a Dutch-born Harvard professor, and Arthur Schawlow, 60, of Stanford. The prize in chemistry will go to Kenichi Fukui, 63, of Japan's Kyoto University, and Roald Hoffmann, 44, of Cornell University...
Omnibust. In Tokyo, when a bus brushed against his motor scooter and the bus driver failed to apologize, Electrician Hirona Fukui, 25, halted the bus by stopping the scooter in front of it, climbed onto the bus hood, walked up to the windshield, kicked...
Parents and educators are inclined to view these un-Japanese gyrations with misgivings and even to take steps. In the city of Fukui (pop. 120,000), for instance, the educators prepared a collection of what they called "good, wholesome, invigorating" songs to be sent out to local education boards and parent-teacher associations, with the recommendation that they be plugged on every possible occasion to drive out the "banal, vulgar, nerve-destroying" mambo. Then the educators rolled up heavy artillery in the form of a symphony orchestra imported from Tokyo. It got a respectful hearing, but this week Cherry Pink...
Between helping the injured, working his camera, and taking his story notes, Mydans found plenty of evidence why the people of Fukui held the American military governor, Lt. Col. James Hyland, in such high regard. In socks and undershorts, Hyland's instant command was "set up a first aid station on the lawn"-where broken and bleeding Japanese flocked even before the second quake hit a few minutes later. Then, when it was discovered that all communication was cut off, he ordered three reconnaissance teams to fight their way out of the city, and not to come back until...