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Without a misstep or a false line, the author ensnares his writer protagonist Oki Toshio in an old love. Without quite admitting to himself why he is making the trip, the hero journeys alone from Tokyo to Kyoto to hear the temple bells ring in the new year. In this city of shrines lives Otoko, with whom he had had a passionate affair 20 years earlier. She was a schoolgirl and he a young married man, and a child was stillborn from their love. For a time Otoko's grief unbalanced her. Toshio did not see her again...
...Usiminas steel plant, backed by a consortium of 14 Japanese companies, will pour 500,000 tons of pig iron this year. In Peru the Japanese have become leaders in the booming fish-meal industry, are also building a railroad in the backlands. In Honduras, Japan's Oki Electric Co. underbid such Western giants as A.T. & T. and Siemens to win the contract to build a new telephone system. Tokyo Shibaura Electric will soon install an educational television network in El Salvador, and Toyota and Nissan will start assembling cars in Venezuela by year...
Four University faculty members yesterday hailed Monday's Supreme Court decisions outlawing racial segregation in Texas and Oki-ahoma graduate schools...
When Swedish Authoress Posse went to join her Czech fiance, Oki Brazda, in Rome in the spring of 1915, Italy was still officially neutral. Miss Posse had trouble-getting through Austria, but she got there. Then Italy declared war and Czechs, being officially Austrians (though most of them hated Austria) became enemy aliens. Authoress Posse married her Oki. followed him to exile in Sardinia, where he was interned. Sardinian Sideshow is the interesting, lively, not too personal account of the year they spent there. Not being considered at first an enemy alien herself, she made a trip to Rome...
Railways: Count Enkichi Oki, holder of the same portfolio in the Kato Cabinet...