Word: honda
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While Detroit's automakers search for ways to reduce the polluting gases produced by the internal-combustion engine, a company best known for its motorcycles may well have found the answer. Japan's Honda Motor Co. plans to begin exporting to the U.S. a 1,600-lb., four-seat car that will easily meet the 1975 emission standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency...
...Honda's machine-as well as in versions under development by other companies-a mixture of fuel that would ordinarily be too lean to ignite in the cylinder is coaxed into burning by the ignition of an adjoining layer of much richer fuel. To accomplish this stratification of fuel, Honda's engineers added a small combustion chamber, to accommodate the richer mixture, at the top of each cylinder (see diagram); the chamber contains the spark plug and is equipped with its own intake valve...
CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS: Yuzuru Abe, Nippon Steel Corp.; Tadashi Arita, The Fuji Bank, Ltd.; Tatsuro Goto, Mitsui & Co., Ltd.; Nobuya Hagura, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank; Akira Harada, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.; Shoji Kambara, Ricoh Co., Ltd.; Kiyoshi Kawashima, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.; Kaoru Kobayashi, Institute of Business Administration and Management; Kazutoyo Komatsu, Trio Electronics, Inc.; Tatsuya Komatsu, Simul International, Inc.; Masao Kunihiro, Kokusai Shoka College; Teiji Makikawa, Fujitsu Ltd.; Isao Makino, Toyota Motor Sales Co., Ltd.; Jiro Mayekawa, Teijin Ltd.; Yohei Mimura, Mitsubishi Corp.; Masafumi Misu, Hitachi, Ltd.; Rihei Nagano, Kubota, Ltd.; Yoshio Narita, Yamaichi Securities Co., Ltd.; Yoshiro...
...capital of Kontum for 14 years. A graduate of the University of Washington Medical School, she has spent that time working with the Montagnard tribesmen, operating an 87-bed hospital that is funded by contributions from the U.S. Soft-spoken and portly, she drives about Kontum in a red Honda sedan. Dr. Smith has survived many minor disasters and at least two major ones. In 1968, her hospital was badly shot up during the Communist Tet offensive; four years later, the ARVN 23rd Division set up a fire base in the hospital, looting and vandalizing the building in the process...
Ruckelshaus hopes that automen will also use their extra year to explore alternate cleanup techniques. Among the most promising: a "stratified-charge" engine now being readied for mass production by Honda of Japan; it seems to require less change in the basic internal-combustion engine than any other antipollution idea and has extremely high fuel efficiency to boot. Environmentalists fear that Detroit will choose to concentrate its energies on a lobbying campaign to get the Clean Air Act weakened, and Ruckelshaus himself believes that there may be lawsuits aimed at overturning his decision...