Word: tsutomu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hunched at the eyepiece of his telescope early in the morning of December 29 in the Japanese city of Hamamatsu, Kaoru Ikeya suddenly grew tense. He had spotted an unfamiliar blob of light in the constellation of Ophiuchus. Five minutes later, 240 miles away in Kochi, Tsutomu Seki located the same strange object. Both checked their star maps, then hurriedly mounted their bicycles and pedaled furiously to the nearest telegraph office. There they dispatched the word to the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory. Incredibly, the same two amateur astronomers who had independently but almost simultaneously discovered 1965's famous and brilliant...
...hurried off on his bicycle to send a telegram to the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory. At the same time, it turned out, another amateur astronomer about 240 miles away in the city of Kochi had made the same discovery. Like Ikeya, Tsutomu Seki, 34, a classical-guitar instructor, had also used a simple, homemade telescope and had two previous comet discoveries to his credit...
Nagasaki's citizens seem to be less fearful of "atom sickness" than their fellow survivors in Hiroshima. They are also markedly gayer and more relaxed. The city's longtime mayor, Tsutomu Tagawa, whose home was destroyed by the Bomb, says his people feel "no bitterness" toward the U.S., shrugs: "If Japan had had the same type of weapon, it would have used it." Today the main difference between the two cities is that Hiroshima has remained a stark symbol of man's inhumanity to man; Nagasaki is a monument to forgiveness...