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Commissions for Giugiaro now seem to come in faster than the awards Ital Design keeps winning. They include a new electric razor for N.V. Philips of Holland, a television set for Saba of Germany, an electronic scale for Yamato Scale Co. of Japan and the interior for a personal helicopter for the President of Italy...
...that cater to the expense-account set. On Tokyo's Ginza alone, well-oiled businessmen drop some $500 million yearly at more than 1,000 bars and restaurants. Prices effectively screen out patrons who have only their own money to spend: dinner for two at Osaka's Yamato-ya restaurant costs about $230, while four Scotch-and-waters at a select Tokyo bar can run to $120, including a tray of hors d'oeuvres and fruit juice for hostesses that the bar employs to keep conversation going. At Osaka's Club Azami, a patron simply signs...
...Ruth candy bars, and zoot suiters jitterbugging to the music of "the Jive Bombers, the true Mi-kados of swing," camp life is not all camp. The prisoners are soon polarized into two groups. On the one hand are the Super Japanese, paying homage to the Emperor and extolling Yamato da-mashii, the Japanese fighting spirit. On the other are Super Americans, holding war-bond rallies and combat-volunteer recruitment drives...
...Mitsubishi shipyard, which in wartime turned out Japan's super-dreadnoughts Yamato and Musashi, is now the world's largest, and last week was busily expanding in order to build the biggest supertankers (150,000 tons) ever launched. Bustling Nagasaki, reports TIME Correspondent Don Connery, views atom-haunted Hiroshima with wry condescension and a touch of envy. Dr. Soichiro Yokota, director of the city's Atomic Bomb Hospital, sniffs that Hiroshima "is better at propaganda than we are," adding with a smile: "It's also true that Nagasaki is like the man who flew the Atlantic...
Affectionately dubbed "Oyaji'' ("Pop") by his employees, Honda spends more time in the research lab than he does at his desk, tests most of the new models* himself at the company's Yamato City testing grounds. He sees no limit to the potential sales of his precision-built machines. "If you produce a good thing, it will be wanted," he says. "And it will be wanted by people in any country...