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...lend his expertise, and even enlisted the U.S. Defense Department's help in filming it. Then, to launch their $25 million epic, Tora! Torn! Tora!, a recapitulation of Pearl Harbor (see CINEMA), the producers held a premiere last week in Washington. Among the guests of honor: Technical Adviser Minoru Genda, the retired Japanese general who planned the attack, and Mitsuo Fuchida, the pilot who led it. Even at a remove of nearly 30 years, there seemed an almost stupefying broadmindedness in celebrating Pearl Harbor in the nation's capital...
Miyoshi's story is one of thousands being collected by Minoru Yuzaki, a sociologist and research fellow at the University of Hiroshima's Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Biology. His mission: find out how many people perished. A quarter-century after the event (see ESSAY), no one yet knows how many Japanese died at Hiroshima. Estimates range from a low of 68,000 (by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission) to a high of 280,000 (by Chugoku Shimbun, Hiroshima's most influential daily newspaper...
...glistening clear fiberglass half-box forms, whose intentionally sloppy casting endows them with a bubbly effervescence. Charles Ross's Plexiglas prisms are filled with mineral oil, so that museumgoers see other museumgoers distorted through them, edged in rainbow spectra. Even marble seems to soar, at least in Minoru Niizuma's vertical marble column entitled Windy Wind...
...Tora! Tora!* as on The Longest Day, which cost about $9,000,000. But the Japanese businessmen-actors will cost little, if anything. Several volunteered their services without pay; others plan to turn their salaries over to charities. A key participant in the Pearl Harbor events, former Staff Officer Minoru Genda, now a member of Japan's Upper House, looked the businessmen over and was filled with nostalgia. "It was fantastic," he said, "like a reunion with all my bosses and colleagues in the old navy...
...compared with 315,000 lawyers, 315,000 doctors, 275,000 engineers, and they still have too little effect on U.S. building. But given the opportunity, the best U.S. architects often lead the world. Among the examples is the new World Trade Center, now going up in Manhattan: designed by Minoru Yamasaki of Birmingham, Mich., its 110-story aluminum-sheathed twin towers will top the Empire State Building, since 1932 the world's tallest. The steady, disciplined hand of German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 82, soon will show in Washington's pristine, block-long central library. For Oakland, Calif...