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...speaker was the president of the world's fifth largest auto producer, Shotaro Kamiya, 71, of Japan's Toyota Motor Sales Co. Recently, on the slopes of the Tateshina Mountains, 140 miles west of Tokyo, he formally dedicated a Buddhist shrine at which prayers will be offered regularly for the souls of people killed in auto accidents...
...shrine, a blood-red structure, cost $444,000. Contributors included Kamiya, all Toyota dealers in Japan and the Esso Standard Oil Co. (of Japan), whose American president is a friend of Kamiya's. The centerpiece of the temple is a statue of Kwannon, the Buddhist goddess of mercy. At the dedication, Kamiya prayed that "the infinite compassion of Kwannon will protect the automobile from disasters...
...vacances pour les riches"-no vacations for the rich. A day after the Deauville raid, the Maoists threw a Molotov cocktail and started a small fire at a hotel in La Baule on the Brittany coast. On Bastille Day, they slashed hundreds of tires in Lourdes near the shrine of Bernadette...
...world of music's unrivaled Gabriel. "The King of Jazz with a golden trumpet" was Sovietskaya Kultura's tribute to Louis Armstrong, who reached 70 last week. Back home, many of the big names of jazz joined well-wishers at Los Angeles' 6,500-seat Shrine Auditorium for a brassy birthday bash, and somebody baked an 11-ft., $1,500 cake. "The biggest thrill I ever had in my life being honored by these cats," said the Satch, visibly moved...
Last week, like Parsifal finally reaching the shrine of the Holy Grail, an English rock quartet known as The Who made it to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera and sold out the house twice in one day. The fateful occasion, twin performances of their so-called rock opera Tommy, was the first time any kind of pop music had ever been heard at the Met. The historic program had been arranged by Rock Promoters Nathan Weiss and Bill Graham, who made the deal with Met General Manager Rudolf Bing. "Perhaps," said Bing, "some of these young people will come back...