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...shipped to the U.S. 2,700 Datsuns (37 h.p., 40 m.p.g.) that sell for $1,616, plans this month to bring in a still lower-priced model, next month to ship quarter-ton pickups and midget station wagons (50 h.p., 40 m.p.g.) to sell for about $1,600. Osaka's giant Daihatsu cartel has started to sell its three-wheeled midget pickup truck called Trimobile. U.S. price...
Waltz in the Street. In Osaka, Japan, to soothe motorists waiting for a long light at a busy intersection, police rigged a tape recorder that plays The Blue Danube while the light...
...nine suitcases containing 25 costume changes (including a native dress for each land she would visit). But she had little time to enjoy them. Hardly was she through with her style show when she had to hop a plane to repeat the same act in Tokyo, then on to Osaka, Hong Kong, Manila, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Honolulu and San Francisco...
French Line retired the 31-year-old Ile de France last autumn, sold her to a Japanese scrap merchant named Seichi Okada, who for the last few weeks has been collecting $4,000 a day in rent from Andy Stone and MGM. Finally, on location last week in Osaka Bay, the Ile reverberated with strange commands, such as "Open the barndoors on the broads!"* In the first-class staterooms, a collection of extras as mixed as the strays in a Conrad novel-English girls from Kobe, White Russians, Poles, wives of U.S. marines, a French judo expert-had the maritime...
...ship, repainted the name Olympus on lifeboats, life rings, prow and stern. Promptly the Greek Line, which has a ship called Olympia, threatened suit. More paint. This week, if all goes according to schedule the Ile de France, her three forward compartments flooded with 7,000 tons of Osaka Bay, will aim her four great screws and the new name Claridon into the wide, wide lenses...