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...almost as much as Honda. Indeed, as a new graduate of a technical high school, he joined Honda the entrepreneur a year before Honda the company was formed. From the start, Kawashima designed motorcycles. In 1959 he was put in charge of Honda's first entries in Grand Prix motorcycle races; the firm picked up the team prize. In 1971 he supervised development of a clean, efficient "stratified charge" auto engine that recently passed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency antipollution tests with flying colors. He will have to draw on all his talents to keep Honda growing...
Conners made the quarter-finals in both the 1973 Wimbledon and U.S. Open Championships. He defeated Smith last week in the preliminaries of the Grand Prix Masters at Boston before eventually losing to Ilse Nastase...
...General Motors moved ahead of competitors by becoming the only automaker to have radial tires made to its own specifications. GM radials will be standard equipment this year on Grand Am and Grand Prix Pontiacs and will be optional on some other models...
Bridge, however, was the first Harvard finisher, and thus received the Raleigh Grand Prix bicycle donated by the Bicycle Exchange. Allis and Bridge, along with Jim Williams and John Baldo, broke from the main pack coming up the final, long hill to finish well ahead of the others...
UNLIKE the annual cinematic extravaganzas at Cannes and Venice, there is no competition for awards and little commerce conducted at the New York Film Festival. New York has never given a prix, and usually most of the movies-this year more than half of the 24 selections-have been booked into American theaters anyway. Thus the New York festival, now in its tenth year, is primarily a social occasion. It has become an annual two-week ritual for movie buffs to gather in the lobbies of Lincoln Center, trade gossip, champion favorite films and, inevitably, castigate the witlessness...