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...TIME, June 15], he should have walked the streets of Kobe with us about two weeks ago when 4,500 Marines came to town. The look they had was neither new nor spiritual. There was a nauseating lack of either...
...Kobe, Japan...
...currently busy building a modern $600,000 school in Connecticut and designing typewriters and time clocks for I.B.M., but the new bubble house is what excites him most. He sees a dozen uses for it: summer cottages, motels, gas stations, roadside shops, garages, big housing developments. Florida's Kobe Sound Corp. will build a pair of Noyes-style bubbles to show tourists this fall. Noyes is also working on a $60,000 luxury model-a cluster of three bubbles, 45 ft. in diameter, with immense windows and five bedrooms. He admits it will take time for the bubbles...
Shortly after midnight on June 30, a couple of young sailors from H.M.S. Belfast, on shore leave in Kobe, grabbed a Japanese cabby by the neck, robbed him of $5 and adjourned to a bar. They were caught, drinks in hand, and last week each was sentenced to 2½ years at hard labor. It was the first sentence pronounced on foreigners since Japan regained her independence last April. The judge was careful to point out that the British tars got only half the minimum prescribed by Japanese law for assault and robbery...
...Even before this turn-of-the-century flurry, says Menzel, flying saucers were reported. In 1893, the British warship Caroline saw mysterious lights just south of Korea. They "flew" in a long line, sometimes changing their formation. Through a glass they appeared "to emit a thin smoke." On reaching Kobe, the officers of the Caroline learned that these "Unknown Lights of Japan" had been observed by fishermen and were even described in Japanese schoolbooks...