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...traveling to Japan. Last week, under the mesmerized eyes of TV cameras, newsreel photographers and 7,500 sophisticated Japanese swimming fans, he coolly did it again, "hydroplaning" (as one dazzled Tokyo sportswriter put it) up and down Jingu Pool in the world-record time of 1:58.5; later in Osaka, he even shaved a tenth of a second off that mark...
...country's biggest sports daily. With two other dailies and three magazines, Shoriki's empire grossed $74.5 million last year, and though post-tax profits were a rice-paper-thin $550,000, he had no complaint. Shoriki's television ventures in Tokyo and Osaka netted $2,300,000, while his horse-racing and golf-course enterprises and his Yomiuri Giants batted in another...
...studies abroad cover the whole gamut of diseases and the agents that transmit them to man. At Osaka University Dr. Hideo Kikkawa has painstakingly bred 30 different mutant strains of houseflies to find out how some of them become resistant to insecticides. By a statistical quirk, Norway turns out to be the best place to compare the effects of different psychiatric treatments, including tranquilizers. The Oslo government has been keeping a register of mental illness cases since 1916, and its records are the world's best for a homogeneous, stable population. Among U.S. immigrants, and their descendants, from Mediterranean...
When it opens full service on the 320-mile run between Tokyo and Osaka in 1964, the New Tokaido will be the world's fastest train. Bullet-shaped locomotives will whip 108 passenger trains daily over twelve miles of bridges, through 40 miles of tunnel and around gentle curves at speeds averaging 105 m.p.h. This is considered too fast for human engineers; computers will control the trains most of the way, with speeds and slowdowns for stops programmed on tape. Running time will be cut to three hours, from 6½ hours on the parallel Old Tokaido Line...
...Pacific, he finally saw the fog rise over the Golden Gate Bridge, politely offered sake to the puzzled U.S. immigration officials who met him. The immigration service decided to grant a one-month visa, and Happy Horie popped off to see the sights, surrounded by the giggling infield of Osaka's touring girls' Softball team. Back home, Japanese officials had to decide whether to fine Horie for illegal exit or hail him as a national hero, the first Japanese to sail the Pacific solo...