Word: typhoons
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...chronically parched Hong Kong, Tokyo's problems seem insignificant. Without a river to call its own, Hong Kong depends for most of its water on passing typhoons. A storm in May helped slightly, but the city's faucets were still dry except for four hours every other day. Then last week came Typhoon Ida, which tragically left five dead, thousands homeless, but pushed water storage in reservoirs up to triple last year's levels. The government felt so well off that it boosted the water schedule to an unheard-of eight hours...
Sensible Change. President Abernethy has done what he could to liven up AMC autos by adding plush touches to the interiors of his cars, bringing out an optional V-8 engine for the Ambassador and Classic, and introducing a limited-production Typhoon sports car that is powered by a spirited, brand-new six-cylinder engine. But Abernethy's first real chance to reverse AMC's decline comes this fall with the introduction of the first models for which he is responsible. The big change: the Ambassador has been redesigned and enlarged to compete with the Big Three...
...land of typhoons and earth quakes, carrier pigeons have proved themselves reliable disaster insurance, able to get through with photographic negatives (up to 20 frames of 35 mm. film in a plastic capsule) where modern communications are blacked out. The pigeons broke into journalism when the great 1923 earthquake turned Tokyo into a shambles, forced editors to rely on a small signal-corps flock. The birds soon earned the title "Hato-san."* As recently as 1959, when a typhoon smashed the industrial city of Nagoya, leaving telephone and wirephoto services dead, the Nagoya Chubu Nippon used its 200 birds...
...flock of 150. Yomiuri Shimbun has just completed new concrete dovecotes, plans to expand its present 20-bird flock to at least 100 in time for the Olympic Games that take place next fall, just 15 winged minutes across Tokyo-and smack in the middle of the typhoon season...
...been blown off the tightrope, has man aged to maintain what passes for neutrality: mildly hostile toward the U.S., friendly toward China (without, however, endorsing Peking's attack against India), friendlier toward Moscow-and, of course, accepting aid from all three. But domestically, the typhoon is causing havoc...