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Even with stops at Nagoya and Kyoto, the Hikari covered the run in a record 3 hr. 56 min. When regular service opens Oct. 1-ten days before the Olympic Games begin-some of the line's 60 passenger trains a day will make the run in four hours v. 6½ over the parallel Old Tokaido Line. The new line took five years to build, and skirts the sea for most of the way; its architects did away completely with grade crossings, designed 548 bridges, 66 tunnels and 57 miles of elevated right of way. The specially built...
WORKS FROM THE KYOTO HAMLET OF FINE ARTS-French & Co.. 978 Madison Ave. at 76th. In 1961 four young Japanese artists founded a colony in Kyoto, a city that for centuries has been the stronghold of traditionalist art. Their work is being shown for the first time in the U.S., together with that of three colleagues...
...Socialist opposition zeroed in on the nagging inflation that has accompanied Japan's phenomenal economic boom. Economist Ikeda, whistle-stopping across the nation, retorted that incomes have risen 52% in the past three years, while prices have risen only 14% . At a Kyoto rally, he asked: "Which do you think is better? The Socialists' advocacy of dividing three eggs among four people? Or Ikeda's policy of dividing eight eggs among four people?" On election day, amid the shriek of sirens that reminded people to vote, Ikeda's Liberal-Democratic Party won control...
...only connection with athletics is size. But no matter. Her voluptuous, 6-ft. 8½-in. body (52-39-51) and flawless marble complexion are eternal symbols of grace and beauty; so the Japanese government has requested her presence in Tokyo and Kyoto next summer. For Venus de Milo, such a visit would be unprecedented, and it required a d'accord from De Gaulle himself. But everything is set, and following the tradition of Mono. Lisa, she will go on a carefully packed ocean voyage. All this gallivanting-around by Louvre ladies has at least one young Frenchman upset...
...note of mystery was lent to the events in Kyoto by the conspicuous presence in the crowds of a sinister-looking man who wrote furiously in a notebook as the Ibis passed. He identified himself as "head of Find-A-Bird operations in Japan" and as the bird flew off was heard to mutter, "Just as we anticipated--due West...