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...plot is an endless battle between the outlaw and a Mexican family he married into decades ago. There is a blood feud in The Challenge, too, as bloody as it is feudal. Two swords have been in an old Japanese family for six centuries. Now, in modern Kyoto, two brothers fight to the death for possession of those swords. Life, it would seem, is cheap in the mystic East, at least when an Occidental director like John Frankenheimer invades Japan to make a martial-arts movie. Glenn and Mifune invade the industrial fortress of Mifune's brother and, banzai...
...father Karl Siegbahn, the 1924 laureate in physics.* The other half of the award will be shared equally by two Americans, Nicolaas Bloembergen, 61, a Dutch-born Harvard professor, and Arthur Schawlow, 60, of Stanford. The prize in chemistry will go to Kenichi Fukui, 63, of Japan's Kyoto University, and Roald Hoffmann, 44, of Cornell University...
...physicist who, while working as a visiting professor at Columbia University in 1949, became his country's first Nobel prizewinner for his theories on subatomic particles, which predicted the existence of the meson, a bit of energized matter believed to hold the atomic nucleus together; of pneumonia; in Kyoto...
...executioners of modern times, learning yet another technique for beheading underlings? Nope. The veteran shoman-warrior, who has disposed of two CBS presidents in the past five years, was just cutting up with Actor Toshiro Mifune (Tom! Tom! Tom!), 61, during a recent visit to Japan. On location in Kyoto with the cast of The Equals, a CBS movie due out next year, Paley cast an experienced samureye on the set before joining Mifune in light swordplay. Affecting a traditional shogun stance, the CBS chairman cried: "Critics beware...
...kite festival, which CBUA bills as a "fly-by-day event," is the second largest in the world. The largest is the thousand-year-old Kite Day in Kyoto, Japan...