Word: honda
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...catching, purse-opening display at this year's round of European auto shows. Visitors to the Paris Auto Salon were entranced by the Toyota GT, which was James Bond's set of wheels in You Only Live Twice. And at the London show last week, crowds around Honda's mini-size line of cars were so dense that most of the curious visitors could not even get close enough to kick the tires...
...economy. When he was in Vietnam four years ago, the country was no more than 15 per cent urban; now about 40 per cent of the people live in cities. Saigon and most other cities have "turned into real boom towns, hit hard by the Honda revolution," Huntington remarks. Saigon's economy is booming, there is no unemployment, and urbanization is snowballing...
Justice Without Bitterness. The court ruling will return to the petitioners-without interest-some $4,000,000 in savings that the Government confiscated from U.S. branches of Japanese banks. Mrs. Ayako Honda, 68, of Redwood City, Calif., who spent three years in a Utah camp while one of her sons was serving in the U.S. Army, estimates that she may receive about $500. She says she feels no bitterness, is elated that finally "justice was done." Said Los Angeles Attorney A. L. Wirin, who represented some of the plaintiffs: "This decision brings to an end the last injustice visited...
...only pertinent fact that I might have added is that the Japanese are a nation of strong collective mentality. A Japanese standing alone feels as naked, lonely, isolated, conspicuous and bewildered as a Honda on the Kansas turnpike -and doesn't like it. He may seem at times to long for individuality, to talk about it and even try to display it. Nevertheless, he is disquieted to find it in himself. Sato's consensus politics is but a manifestation of this national trait...
Apart from the clouds of industry, Fuji today is challenged by both the contrails of Japan Air Lines' 22 jets and the blue exhaust of Honda's Formula I Grand Prix cars, which snarl in blurring white circles on a race track at Fuji's base...