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Unfamiliar Glow. All that intense professional activity-involving everything from rockets to careful studies with powerful telescopes-was touched off by a couple of amateur Japanese stargazers working with homemade equipment. For Kaoru Ikeya, 21, who lives in a tin-roof shanty near the eel farms on Lake Hamana, 140 miles southwest of Tokyo, this was his third comet discovery. Since his first (TIME, Jan. 25, 1963), Ikeya has advanced from a $28-a-month lathe operator to a $44-a-month ivory-key polisher in the same piano factory, but has no greater ambition than to help support...
...Kaoru Ikeya, 19, of Shizuoka Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, was chronically broke. A $28-a-month lathe operator, he gave $25 of each pay check to his widowed mother. But a little thing like lack of money never kept Kaoru from his normally expensive hobby-amateur astronomy. Somehow he accumulated the cash for parts and materials, and all by himself he built an ambitious telescope...
Patiently, Kaoru ground and polished an eight-inch parabolic mirror. He made a tube out of tin plate. The whole instrument cost him only $20. At first it did not work very well, as is usually the case with home-made telescopes. But Kaoru repeatedly took it apart to reduce its faults...
After a year of work, the telescope was good enough to give a clear view of the deep sky. Whenever weather permitted, Kaoru sat up most of the night, getting to know the swarming stars as intimately as he knew the streets of his own town. One recent night, as he scanned the dark sky, he watched the constellations rise with familiar timing above the eastern horizon; then he gradually turned his telescope on the constellation Hydra. There, three degrees southwest of star Pi, he caught a glimpse of a faint misty object. He did not remember seeing it before...
...Kaoru Yasui, to whom the Russians in 1957 awarded a Lenin Peace Prize for his labors as head of the anti-American Japanese Council Against Atomic Bombs, perspired through a press conference trying to explain away the council's recent resolution to brand the first nation to resume bomb tests as the "enemy of humanity." The loss of face was too much for Yasui. Next day he delivered his own questionnaire in writing to the Russian Ambassador to Tokyo, Nikolai Fedorenko. His questions: "Does the Soviet government really intend to take up the power policy pursued by the imperialists...