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...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...
...took the city's 3,500,000 population at war's end to a current 10.6 million. In the process Japan became the world's fifth largest and Asia's only industrial power. Five years ago, when Tokyo won the bid to host the XVIII Olympiad, the furor of that growth redoubled. And next month, when the Games open, Tokyo will clearly show that the sound and fury of its past signify something...
...sophistication and toughness that set Tokyo above and beyond any other Asian city. Even the delightfully wicked quality of its night life helps to weld the city. More than anything else, it is a city of people, of crowds, of action. It is bound to emerge from this Olympiad uglier than ever, but beloved of its people nonetheless...
Bedrooms and Highways. Nowadays, as Japan prepares for the XVIII Olympiad in October, Metropolitan Tokyo's 10 million-plus citizens don't even look up at the noise-measuring machine. It remains for the newcomer to stand, dazed and deafened, gazing at the measurement of the world's biggest city tearing itself down, building itself up, air-hammering its streets into rubble, ripping out its innards, and riveting itself into ever-more-sprawling, ever-more-ugly bigness...
...GRAND OLYMPICS. Made in Italy, this color sportstacular dazzlingly synthesizes the glory that was Rome's during the summer Olympiad...