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...rural southern island, working as a railways bureaucrat. There he learned the trick of office consensus, if only to keep the trains moving. Twice he was sent to China as a railways adviser during the Japanese war there, and during World War II served as director of a motor pool. He also contracted a serious case of typhus, and while recuperating read an article on the passivity of the Asian masses by U.S. Author Pearl Buck that changed his way of thinking. "Reviewing the past of Japan," he says, "I felt there had been something essentially wrong about our approach...
Americans, who may eventually spend about $100 million altogether on Indonesian ventures, are getting competition from other nations. Among the 19 bidders for offshore oil rights are French, Canadian, Japanese and Australian companies. Italy's Lambretta is dickering to build a motor-scooter plant to put more of Indonesia's 107 million people on wheels. The Netherlands' Philips' Electric, through a subsidiary, intends to start a radio-parts factory...
...Behind British Motor Corp., British Ford and G.M.'s Vauxhall...
...father was hired by Ford's chief engineer and given a free hand to design the Ford Tri-Motor. It is to Torn Towle, a relatively unknown aviation pioneer, that credit should go for designing the Tin Goose, with its legendary lifting power, durability and structural integrity. He is the real grandfather of the Bushmaster 2000, son of Tin Goose...
...black feet. Though the cars weigh a mere 1,100 Ibs., their three-liter engine develops more than 375 h.p., and they can dart down a straightaway at better than 200 m.p.h. At full bore, a Formula One handles so neurotically that in all the world of motor racing only 20 men are fully qualified to drive...