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...Atami station of Japan's National Railways, "except they were a New Year's gift from my husband and he will kill me if he finds they are missing. He will not believe what happened.'' An understanding man, the stationmaster wired ahead to Nagoya. Sure enough, in one of the empty cars, there were the black lace panties that the woman had been wearing until she was caught in the rib-crunching free-for-all involved in getting on and off a train in Japan...
...white-robed Shinto priests performed intricate purification ceremonies, a potbellied turboprop transport rolled out of a hangar at Nagoya's Komaki Airport, taxied down a runway and roared aloft. An hour later, when the plane set back down at Komaki, a waiting throng of businessmen and Japanese air force brass broke into exultant banzais. The YS 11, first Japanese-designed commercial transport to be built since World War II, had completed its maiden flight...
Author Zimmerman, who teaches sociology at Japan's Nanzan University in Nagoya, points out that the problem is not entirely new; the pros and cons of letting a population explode were considered by the ancients with varied verdicts. Confucius was for it. When asked about the problem of poverty among a teeming people, he replied simply: "Enrich them." Plato was one of the most fanatical birth-controllers of all time. Citizens of his ideal state would have to get licenses to reproduce-the women between the ages of 20 and 40, the men between 25 and 55. Aristotle...
...Wide World of Sports (ABC, 4:30-7 p.m.). The Japanese all-star baseball game from Nagoya, Japan...
Morning After. Next day, the Japanese newspapers continued their amazing mental acrobatics (see PRESS). The Tokyo Asahi, which had been violently denouncing the Security Treaty, blandly admitted that "there is a great improvement in the new treaty as compared with the old one." Nagoya's Chubu Nippon declared: "Kishi's resignation precedes all other conceivable measures as a way out of chaos, no matter how justifiable his stand may seem. Among other things he is responsible for, Kishi has to render an account of how he came to postpone the Eisenhower visit...