Word: hokkaido
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...nine daily racing sheets predicted, a chestnut colt named Tanino Moutiers from Hokkaido broke away from the field of 22 three-year-olds to win the l½-mile race. The purse of $63,000 raised his total earnings to $284,000, a record for three-year-olds inJapan. At the finish, poorer but poetic grandstanders followed tradition by throwing their losing tickets in the air in unison to simulate the falling of cherry blossoms...
...Tokyo Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold's many dispatches for this week's cover story on Japan, its people, and its place in the world and history. The Japanese could easily return the compliment. Reingold and his colleagues, Frank Iwama and S. Chang, covered the country from Hokkaido to Kyushu and Okinawa. They attended cheerful festivals as well as grim student riots; they interviewed philosophers, business magnates, artists, shopkeepers, critics and politicians (including Premier Sato). "In a way, I have been working on this cover ever since I arrived here just one year ago, collecting interviews, impressions and material...
...United Press International; Michael McGrady of Newsday, Long Island; Joseph Strickland of The Detroit News; John Zakarian of the Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers, Decatur, Illinois; Miss Gisela Bolte of the Time-Life Bureau in Bonn; O-Kie Kwon of Dong-A Ilbo, Seoul; Yoshihiko Muramatsu of the Tokyo Bureau of Hokkaido Shimbun; Harald Pakendorf of Die Vaterland, Johannesburg; and Pedronio Ortiz Ramos of The Manila Chronicle. The Editorial Page Cartoonist was George Amick of The Trenton Times...
Scanning a moving blip on the screen that indicated an airliner, Japanese defense command radar operators on the northernmost tip of Hokkaido Island radioed a warning. "You are off course," chided the Japanese. "Turn south." But the message was lost amid crackling static, and Seaboard World Airlines Flight 25 3 A was already 80 nautical miles north of its course. Moments lat er, Pilot Joseph Tosolini was radioing that intercepting MIG fighters were forcing him to land on Iturup, one of the Soviet Kurile Islands. For Tosolini, 214 U.S. servicemen bound for Viet Nam aboard Flight 253A and the crew...
...airliner's ports afforded a rare peek at the Kuriles, which Russia has guarded with xenophobic jealousy ever since the islands were seized as booty from Japan after World War II. A mist-shrouded necklet of 50 volcanic islets, the Kuriles are strung strategically from within seven miles of Hokkaido to seven miles from Kamchatka on the Siberian mainland. "The whole place looked half-abandoned," said Army Specialist Five Theodore Sokardo. "The runway was narrow and the field buildings were dingy and, wellere flashed to U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson in Moscow, who took advantage of a similar treaty-signing ceremony...