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...Canada Cup, emblematic of world golf supremacy, for the eighth time in 14 years, as Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer shot a combined 72-hole score of 548, or 28 under par; at the Yomiuri Country Club, in Tokyo. The individual competition was won by George Knudson, who sank a 12-ft. putt on the second hole of a sudden-death play-off to break a tie with Japan's Hideyo Sugimoto. Nicklaus finished third, Palmer fifth...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Still smarting from their World Series defeat by the Baltimore Orioles, the Los Angeles Dodgers fly across the Pacific hoping to find consolation in an exhibition game against the Yomiuri Giants in Tokyo...
...sento owners reckoned without the furious public. PEOPLE FLARE UP IN ANGER, screamed the banner headline in Tokyo's largest daily Yomiuri Shimbun; it reported that irate callers were jamming the paper's switchboard with threats to smash sento windows and protests that "They are infringing on basic human rights!" Cried Mrs. Eiko Takada, 24, mother of three: "How can we keep our babies living without bathing them at least once a day? Is the sento association trying to commit wholesale murder of babies?" Declared Mrs. Mumeo Oku, the vocal chairwoman of the Tokyo Housewives Association: "These...
Japan's fiercely competitive big-city dailies fight for circulation with all the costly gadgetry of modern news gathering. Walkie-talkies, high-speed teleprinters, facsimile transmitters and radio-equipped cars are standard reportorial accessories. To cover a big story quickly, Tokyo's Yomiuri Shimbun (circ. 3,900,000) will throw in mobile radiophoto units, a brace of helicopters, one of its six airplanes. Beyond all that, Japanese newspapers' rooftops are equipped with some of the oddest journalistic aids in use anywhere today-flocks of carrier pigeons...
...three years ago even Tokyo's largest daily, Asahi (circ. 4,100,000), gave away its 300 birds with the announcement: "Time has come to say sayonara to Hato-san." Still, rival Mainichi keeps two trainers on its staff, spends $800 a month on a 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...