Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Traffic Controller Jan de Haas stared grimly at his radar screen in the tower at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport: something was terribly wrong with Japan Air Lines Flight 404, which had just taken off for Anchorage en route to Tokyo. Alerted by a secret coded signal from the 747's pilot, De Haas was sure that a skyjacking was in progress...
...Tokyo, Japanese were once again caught up in the mood of mingled shame and rage that appeared after the Lod catastrophe. Said shocked Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka: "This is terrible. The government will do all in its power to assure the safety of the passengers." At Tokyo International Airport, worried relatives waited for news. But as the week ended, from the 747 sweltering in the sun at Dubai came word only that the terrorists were "waiting for instructions." From whom? No one knew...
...service charge automatically added to restaurant checks and hotel bills. Though relentlessly drilled by tour guides on the more free-enterprise aspects of the custom in the U.S., many foreigners become hopelessly confused when the time actually arrives to tip someone. They can also get taken. Chizumi Otani, a Tokyo housewife whose U.S. visit was a 50th birthday present from her family, recently handed a $5 bill to her waitress in a San Francisco restaurant to pay for a $3.30 lunch. The waitress did not return with change, and the visitor was too polite to search her out and demand...
...blonde soon went on to paint her whole body-mimicking the textures and patterns of nature. Usually Veruschka wears her highly decorative camouflage only at home on her farm near Munich. More conventionally attired, she has branched out into television and personal appearances, including one in Tokyo to peddle Swiss watches and the Japanese jewels that go in them. "Suddenly they wrapped me up in purple and started pointing all those Japanese cameras at me. They forget about the watches...
...Japanese investors provide needed capital for a perennially money-short economy, as well as jobs for our local labor and revenues for our hard-up government coffers." For their part, the Japanese have been surprised by all the fuss. After discussions with a delegation of concerned Hawaiian businessmen in Tokyo, some of the Japanese investors agreed that they had to mix more with the Hawaiians and become more involved in community affairs and projects...