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...year-old flying instructor named Orville Drankhan. He was also her last. When police, alerted by a curious neighbor, entered the apartment one evening last April, they found Orville and Elaine in the bedroom. She was lying on the bed, wearing only an unbuttoned black and white kimono jacket. Drankhan was on the floor, fully clothed. Each had a .38 slug in the head. They had been dead 43 hours. Investigators speculated that the killer had not meant to shoot Elaine, but that the first bullet caromed off Orville's forehead and tore into her temple. The prime suspect...
...Japanese presence in South Korea has redoubled: Japanese tourists swarm through Seoul, businessmen enjoy the gamy delights of the Walker Hill sex complex, and Japanese Corona taxi-cabs-now assembled in Korea-throng the streets. In Taipei's elegant hostelries, pin-striped Japanese papa-sans and their kimono-clad ladies queue up for bus tours to the Japanese-style inns that dot Taiwan's craggy green coast...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). My Geisha (1962), with Shirley MacLaine whooping it up in kimono...
...Drink the Water, by Woody Allen. That Broadway staple, the Jewish family-situation comedy, has gone into Diaspora in recent years. In A Majority of One, Gertrude Berg donned a kimono and somewhere between the tea ceremony and the kosher sukiyaki won the heart of a Japanese gentleman. The Zulu and the Zayda made color-unconscious buddies out of Menasha Skulnik and a Zulu tribesman. In Don't Drink the Water, a touring New Jersey caterer (Lou Jacobi), his wife (Kay Medford) and daughter (Anita Gillette) temporarily take asylum in a U.S. embassy in a country much like Hungary...
...guidance, Twiggy has become not just a model but an industry. Already he has helped her to set up Twiggy Enterprises, Ltd., of which he is a partner. Soon there will be Twiggy boutiques and a Twiggy line of clothes (first design: a belted hybrid toga and kimono), and negotiations are under way with a cosmetics house in Paris for a Twiggy perfume. For a career that began only nine months ago, such success is at the moment all too intoxicating, and Justin is keeping his fingers crossed. "I almost starved," says he. "I don't want...