Word: honda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kataoka, 53, spends the week doing public relations chores for the Ministry of Agriculture. But every Sunday during the harvest season, he becomes an Oriental Quixote-a tireless crusader against the urban sprawl that is fast destroying Japan's rural beauty. Armed with three cameras, he mounts his Honda and chugs off to perform his duties as president (and sole member) of the Japan Scarecrow Institute. His mission: to save and celebrate scarecrows, "the silent critics of this country's devastating environmental disruptions...
...knows where it will all end. In Southern California, four-year-old Derek Bland gives expert demonstrations on his 50-cc. Honda. Wearing his silver crash helmet and silver boots, he takes off down his driveway at 12 m.p.h., leans, sticks out a foot expertly to whip his bike around and roars back to his starting point. "I'm too good at this," he says. "You should see me go over a jump. I can do wheelies too." Derek started out on a mini-minibike called the Indian, but quickly became bored. For one thing, it could...
...Communist patrols armed with AK-47 rifles. After hurrying back to the capital, Flynn and Dana Stone (on assignment for CBS News) agreed that a return trip was worth the risk despite ominous reports of 10,000 Communist troops in the area. The two rented red Honda motorcycles and headed off. The next day villagers near Bavet reported seeing the Viet Cong quietly capture two Westerners on motor scooters. It was the same area where the Frenchmen and two Japanese journalists had been captured the day before...
...appliances, from electric rice cookers to transistor radios, occupy conspicuous nooks even in the homes of unskilled laborers. Television antennas rise everywhere, even over tin-roofed huts. Saigon's greenery has suffered less damage from Communist bombs than from the choking exhaust fumes of Mercedes autos and Honda motorcycles...
...says you can't tell the Flying Fondas without a score card? First, there's the jefe of the family, Henry Founder. Then there's the girl voted most likely to, Roger, Jane Fondle. And the All-America halfbike, that's Peter Honda. Absence makes the heart grow Fonda...