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Hunched at the eyepiece of his telescope early in the morning of December 29 in the Japanese city of Hamamatsu, Kaoru Ikeya suddenly grew tense. He had spotted an unfamiliar blob of light in the constellation of Ophiuchus. Five minutes later, 240 miles away in Kochi, Tsutomu Seki located the same strange object. Both checked their star maps, then hurriedly mounted their bicycles and pedaled furiously to the nearest telegraph office. There they dispatched the word to the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory. Incredibly, the same two amateur astronomers who had independently but almost simultaneously discovered 1965's famous and brilliant...
...hurried off on his bicycle to send a telegram to the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory. At the same time, it turned out, another amateur astronomer about 240 miles away in the city of Kochi had made the same discovery. Like Ikeya, Tsutomu Seki, 34, a classical-guitar instructor, had also used a simple, homemade telescope and had two previous comet discoveries to his credit...
...mandate went far deeper than a change of personalities. In sweeping out the Liberals, the Japanese were sweeping away a regime that represented to the majority of Japanese a decade of meek complaisance to the commands and suggestions of the U.S. occupiers. Yoshida was re-elected from his own Kochi district last week, and his former Foreign Minister ran a dramatically repudiated eighth in a nine-man race...
...Kochi was working in his office adjoining the lab when the accident occurred. His first reaction when he heard the noise, he says, was simply to run out and see what caused it. The blast completely demolished the beaker with which Maidanick was working and slightly injured the two other students who were standing nearby, but it caused no damage to the lab itself...
...Such an accident is "one of the hazards of chemistry," Kochi said. The explosion involved no violation of the rules on the part of the injured students, he added...