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Returning to Tokyo in 1970, he set up his own company. His first fashion collection the following year was rooted in the transmogrified past. He used sashiko, an ancient form of quilted material traditionally meant for workers' clothing and judo uniforms. Miyake wove it wide, not narrow, and softened it so it yielded an unexpected, even sensuous, pliability...
...muscular, 163-lb. athlete who has a black belt in judo, Jeantot walked off his floating home at Newport as jauntily as if he were returning from a stroll. Of the few bad times during the voyage, the worst, he said, came between Sydney and Cape Horn, when he had to go far south to pick up the prevailing westerly wind. For 13 days near 58° south latitude, he never saw the sun and at tunes could not even see the top of his mast. "Everything on board was wet and cold," he recalls, "and it was dangerous when...
Ironically, the boycott comes at a time when South Africa has begun to make progress toward desegregating its sports. Blacks are still excluded from many teams and facilities. Yet an investigative group from the British Sports Council concluded that fencing, karate, judo and track and field in South Africa are so integrated that participants should be allowed to compete internationally. The same has been said of soccer, and a French team of inquiry felt likewise about boxing. Though South Africa's national pastime, rugby, remains aggressively white, the Springboks squad now has one mulatto player. However admirable the blacklist...
...carrying a gun or a can of Mace, advise police officials, don't try to use them. By the time you have reached for your pocket, an armed robber will have had time to kill you. For much the same reason, do not attempt to use karate or judo against the mugger. Even expert fighters are not skilled enough to disarm a mugger unless the element of surprise is on their side. Admits Gerry Armstrong, 31, of Miramar, Fla., a martial-arts instructor with 19 years of experience: "If someone pulls a gun and tells me to hand...
...conversation with Reagan?and it is very quiet and faint?is that his geniality is equal to his fears. What, specifically, he is afraid of is a secret, as it is with most successful people. But there is no secret about his ability to do a kind of stylistic judo on a potential threat. The voice softens to music; the eyes grow helpless, worried...