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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...
Spitfire Syndrome. Nonetheless, Western businessmen and tourists are flying into Eastern Europe in greater numbers than ever, and their yen for exotic travel is more than matched by the Communists' eagerness to carry dollar-paying passengers. Next week Czechoslovakia's CSA will begin scheduled flights with Ilyushin 62 jets from New York to Prague, though Western travel is forbidden to most Czechoslovaks...
...over the world, English-language newspapers comfort American tourists, help teach native students and rake in local advertisers' bahts, cruzeiros, dinars, pesos, rupees and yen. But some of the papers are English in name only. As a splendid example, the first issue of Buenos Aires' new American News has just announced its aims in a charming front-page letter from the editor...
...results were amazing." Yen said. "The Chinese upper face is shorter and has a flat contour, the nose is not as long and is more vertically inclined that that of the white, his teeth naturally protrude more, and the chin is naturally more backward in the face and is less distinctive." he added...
...differences between the profiles are dramatic," Yen said. "It is easy for even a layman to see that a different treatment would be called for in order to maintain the proper facial proportions of each race," he added...