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...million, the largest expenditure ever for the Winter Games. From the breathtaking downhill course carved in the side of Mount Eniwa to the giant 50,000-seat Makomanai Speed-Skating Rink, Sapporo is a wintersports wonderland. After one launching off the steeply sculpted ski jump on Mount Okura, one jumper exclaimed: "You feel as though you're going to fly right over the city...
...Festival of Money. Some Japanese authorities considered it more important than the Olympics in adding luster to Japan's image, and Prime Minister Ikeda came to speak to the opening session. When the International Monetary Fund met last week in Tokyo, the gathering in the elegant Hotel Okura was the greatest in the city's history, a financial Olympiad for 2,000 mental gymnasts from 102 nations...
...visitors, so they pumped $93 million in loans into the city's hotel industry. Two new hotels-the Otani, with a revolving cocktail lounge on its roof, and the Tokyo Prince -boast 1,600 rooms between them, to add to the facilities of the huge new Okura and Tokyo Hilton hotels. In addition, eight ships will anchor in Tokyo Harbor to provide floating accommodations. Other tourists will be housed at Kakone, the coolly beautiful mountain resort 58 miles west of the city. Improvements to the ryokan, Japan's traditional inns, have added 4,000 more rooms...
...hope of stopping a practice that might offend foreign guests, posters are going up in the subways, pleading: "Let's refrain from urinating in public." The $19.4 million Shiba Prince Hotel and the $38 million Otani Hotel are racing to join the already finished Tokyo Hilton and Okura...
...Tiger fullback Omats Omatete transformed Crimson drives into Princeton offensives with kicks that cleared mid-field every time. From there, right inside Okura Wawa and center Webb Harrison could boot the ball the rest...