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...Kiyoaki Matsugae died a vaporously youthful death. He becomes Isao, the fanatic young political conspirator of Runaway Horses. In The Temple of Dawn, Kiyoaki/Isao is again transformed, this time into Ying Chan, a lovely Thai princess. The witness to all three incarnations is a wonderfully subtle spiritual voyeur named Honda, a rationalist Japanese judge and lawyer. Honda, like a principle of embattled moral intelligence, acts as Mishima's civilized guide through the mysteries of love, death, political tragedy and reincarnation...
...Ullmann), who is 40 years old and tense about it, and the head of labor relations for a large steel company (Edward Albert), who is a vehemently mature 22. They meet on holiday in Greece. Her car expires; he persuades her, with difficulty, to accept a lift on his Honda, plies her with ouzo, and after a while-too long a while -they spend a blissful night together on the beach. They meet again in New York, where he shows up by chance one night to take her 17-year-old daughter on a date. There is great fluttering...
...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...
...Honda engineers insist that the extra carburetor and the additional parts needed to open and close the second intake valve on each cylinder will not add more than 10% to the basic cost of the 65-h.p. engine. Moreover, they point out that the engine does not require special servicing or changes of material to maintain low emission. By contrast, U.S. and other foreign engines will need expensive catalytic converters or thermal reactors to meet 1975 emission standards. The catalytic converters can easily be fouled, have tended to break down in tests and, in any case, must be periodically replaced...
...pollution. Although Detroit automakers have argued that the engine is not yet suitable for standard-size cars, they could well install it in smaller models. Last week General Motors President Edward Cole revealed that GM had expressed interest in ordering as many as 400,000 stratified-charge engines from Honda for the 1975 model year; Honda replied that it had neither "the interest nor capacity" to provide them. GM has now announced an "urgent" program that could place its own version of the engine in "Vega-size cars in the near future...