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...dozen ocean-going freighters thrashed seaward from Lagos' Apapa Quay, laden with cocoa, groundnuts, rubber and timber. In the Eastern Region's capital of Enugu, helmeted coal miners queued up as usual at the "Drink Tea and Eat Fried Meat and Radio Servicing" shop. At the Iddo Motor Park, beside the Bight of Benin, the lorries and "mammy wagons" of Ibo refugees were drawn into a frontier-style circle, while families clustered around huge pots of palm-oil chop-a bubbling mass of rice, meat, fish and coconut squeezings. The fatalistic mottoes on the mammy wagons seemed symbolically...
...whizzy world of two-wheeled transportation, Honda Motors Co. of Japan has long since lapped the field. Honda's U.S. export models are the fastest selling numbers since the salad day of the Harley-Davidson. Its cycles take home most of the prizes in international racing. Its new, lightweight "Little Honda" motor bike sells like soy sauce in Japan, will be introduced in the U.S. next year at about $100. And now the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer is tooling up for a sharp turn into the international auto market...
...Tokyo, dropped out of school at 13, developed an early interest in engines. He opened his own auto repair shop at 22, raced cars, set national speed records, then quit the track at 31 after a serious smashup. Recuperating from his injuries, Honda conceived plans for his own motor company, soon began manufacturing piston rings for autos, naval vessels and planes...
...Stern. In schoolroom demonstrations, an electromagnetic force is produced by passing electric current through a wire or other conductor suspended in a magnetic field. The current generates a magnetic field around the wire that pushes against the field of the magnet. In an electric motor, current flowing through the armature reacts in the same way against a magnetic field generated by electromagnets. The resulting push, or torque, turns the rotor...
...each side of the sub. Because the current flows at right angles to the magnetic field generated by the coil, electromagnetic force is exerted against the conductor-which in this case is the sea water itself. As the sea water is pushed back-like the armature of a motor-the sub reacts by moving forward...