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...close of World War II, he bought up small surplus army engines that had been used to operate communications equipment, adapted them for Honda-built power bikes that ran on fuel extracted from pine roots. When the supply of engines dwindled, Honda began building his own, and the groundwork for the present-day company was completed. Honda incorporated in 1948 with working capital of $2,777 and 34 employees. Cycle sales accelerated, the company grew, but Honda quickly tired of administrative and marketing chores, eventually turned them over to Takeo Fujisawa, an intense sales executive who has since risen...
...Gauss, Huygens, Kirchhoff. There, indeed, is a monument to the West that any sane man would like to see at the bottom of Lake Baikal. If they do a really thorough job long enough, they will be walking to work and working at night by the light of blazing pine knots, even in the Celestial City...
Such trees as fragrant pine and plants such as pungent sage produce the "blue haze" that occurs during summer, even over relatively uninhabited areas of land. They emit molecular substances known as terpenes and esters, which react with sunlight to form a smog similar to the one produced by man-made pollutants. Terpenes, says Went, like some industrial and automobile pollutants, are "incredibly toxic." In some parts of the West, where they are generated by sage, they actually inhibit the growth of other vegetation...
Thrusting Towers. Los Angeles is an amalgam of disparate communities so bewildering that even natives do not know-or care-where one begins and the other leaves off. The city proper is complex enough, an agglomeration of 60-odd communities as different as elm-and-pine-shaded Encino in the San Fernando Valley and Venice, a tawdry oceanside spot ten miles to the south. The county's 75 other incorporated cities may be either outlying areas or, like opulent Beverly Hills, an enclave within the central city. Most U.S. cities have a single downtown core, but Los Angeles...
...been married or even that the tykes are hers. Milan's weekly magazine Gente did its bit by publishing photostats of Raquel's license to marry one James Wesley Welch in Clark County, Nev., on May 8, 1959. It was a minor coup. What Raquel-watchers really pine to know is whether she's currently married to Patrick Curtis, 31, her agent, business partner and steady house guest. "I neither deny nor confirm the report that we are married," said Curtis, adding darkly: "Nobody will be able to come up with a photostat of a marriage...