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...with ill-concealed envy. To Mayor Takayama, whose father founded the first Y.M.C.A. in the city, the sightseers' gold was an asset that should be shared by the temples with the city as a whole. To help pay off his city's deficit (1,800,000,000 yen) and to construct a vast urban convention hall, the mayor proposed a 5-to 10-yen tax on each temple admission...
...FREE MARKET OFFICIAL RATE Argentina 32 pesos to the $1 18 to the $1 Bolivia 5,500 bolivianos 190 Brazil 83 cruzeiros 18.75 Burma 10 kayats 4.76 Finland 300 marks France 395 francs 350 Japan 385 yen 360 Pakistan 6.40 rupees 4.76 Philippines 2.85 pesos Spain 43 pesetas Turkey 9.50 lire...
Preparing the Future. For months many girls in Shinjuku and Kamedo have contributed some 100 yen daily out of their earnings to establish a private rehabilitation fund against the gloomy day that dawned last week, but many another had no intention of quitting her calling. For the enterprising individual, there was still future enough in such establishments as Tokyo's New Opal Hotel, which runs a daily ad in English-language Tokyo papers: "Here is the place you pay only 800 yen with your partner to stay overnight including one free drink. Each room with double-sized...
Japan was so pleased at being allowed to hold this year's championship, that the government issued a special ten-yen (3?) stamp. When the Swaythling Cup winners were awarded their prize, Captain Ichiro Ogimura took a small snapshot from his pocket and held it in front of the silver trophy. It was a picture of Kichiji Tamasu, 21-year-old team star, who died of a heart attack last January. Said Ogimura with due solemnity: "I thought he should know...
Like subway turnstiles and slot machines, the telephone is a traditional target for those Americans with a yen for outwitting the machine age. Before science developed the foolproof pay phone, nearly every college boy knew how to make it disgorge a tinkling stream of nickels. Last week Illinois Bell Telephone Co. ruefully explained another game that costs it as much as $400,000 annually: the free call, in which by various stratagems thousands of callers in toll booths and at home use the phone company's wires without ever paying a cent. At Bell's urging, the Illinois...