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...Asia, edged further last week toward friendship with the Communist empire-a step which its new Premier said was really doing the U.S. a favor. The prefectural assembly of Hokkaido, Japan's second largest island, called for "a positive interchange" between Japan, Russia and Red China. The Kobe and Osaka Chambers of Commerce formed delegations "ready to go to Mos cow and Peking." The Japanese fishing industry accepted a Communist invitation to send experts to Red China. Japan's political parties, from right to left, were moving left. The conservative Liberal Party of ex-Premier Shigeru Yoshida...
Photographers' flashbulbs and shopkeepers' eyes popped in happy unison as the sleek green Cunard luxury liner Caronia tied up at a Kobe pier side. "A particularly wonderful group," clucked an official of the Japan Travel Bureau as a long line of Helen Hokinson ladies and balding gentlemen picked their way down the gangplank. "I should estimate that they came 95% to buy souvenirs and only 5% for sightseeing-a tedious business anyway...
...deck cabin with two bunks) to $29,000 (for a main deck suite), they had come from the U.S. (500 of them in all) to see the Pacific in style over a leisurely 99 days, picking up memories and mementos in exotic ports from Pitcairn Island to Singapore. In Kobe, the first of two stops in Japan, they lost no time adding to the collection. Heading virtually en masse for the Great Circle department store, they bought out its entire stock of high-priced screens, dolls and kimonos. "Incredible," murmured one dazed floor manager, "the more expensive the items...
...thin patch of pines at Kobe Sound, Fla., 25 miles north of Palm Beach, passers-by gaped last week at two odd-looking "bubble houses," the first built from designs by Connecticut Architect Eliot Noyes (TIME, June 22). Built around large nylon and rubber bubbles, reinforced with wire and then sprayed with two coats of concrete (called shot crete), the houses can withstand winds of 125 m.p.h., are sealed against the hordes of insects found in warm climates. Inside, partitions reach up just to the curve of the ceiling; only the bathroom is enclosed, with Fiberglas. The four-room...
Students may pick any of five groups to which to donate: the American Friends Service Committee, Kobe College of Japan, the National School and Service Fund for Negro Students, United Red Feather, and the Would University Service...