Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week railbirds camped outside the Tokyo Race Course for three days to buy tickets for the 37th running of the Japan Derby. Other fans took part in the annual taxi derby, a wild last-minute rush to the track by hundreds of kamikaze drivers who are tipped 100 yen (27?) by customers for each rival taxi they pass. Among the 120,000 spectators who packed the track was a large contingent of housewives in kimonos and miniskirted girls who waited in long lines at the ladies-only betting windows...
...memorializing past derby winners, complete with poems("I'm born to race/ In my vessels only runs blood to race") and the sounds of their neighs, are selling briskly. Excitement, one of a score of recent books on horse racing, has sold 200,000 copies. Analyzing the craze, Tokyo Psychologist Kazuo Shimada suggests that it satisfies a psychic need in the world's most crowded country. "Merely living here," he says, "breeds friction, tension and frustration. Betting on the horses is a means of alleviating that pressure." As for the crush of the crowds, he adds: "Where interests...
Rock and roll upon bones, now death dances in Viet Nam, and in Cambodia. Where will it dance tomorrow? Rise up, girls of Tokyo, boys of Rome. Aim your flowers at the universal evil enemy. Blow aloft all the dandelion fluff of the world. Oh, what a mighty blizzard that will make...
...most economically successful nation in the Moslem Middle East, Iran is enjoying the pleasures of material progress-and suffering from some of its discomforts. In Teheran, where the population has mushroomed beyond 2,500,000, automobile traffic is both heavy and frightening, more chaotic than it is in Tokyo, Bangkok or Beirut. Middle-aged women gaze disapprovingly at the miniskirted teenagers. Many Iranians can afford to buy the autos and clothes of their choice because the Alaska-size country no longer has an economy based on "the three C's": cotton, carpets and caviar. Under the prodding...
...apparently given up trying to reach a compromise. A new negotiator, charged by the White House to bargain for a compromise, might find the Japanese less adamant. Even so, the chances of reaching any agreement before the Mills bill passes Congress are discouragingly slim. Both Tokyo and Washington now insist that the other side must make the first concession...