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A Wrecked Model A
Gave Us Motorbikes
Thousands of students who
roar across town and campus
on purring motorcycles, in a
sense owe their flashy mode
of transportation to an auto
mobile accident that took place
more than 30 years ago.
It was 1935, and a young
Japanese racing driver nam
ed Soichiro Honda was guid
ing his modified Model A
around a track at a dizzying
75 m.p.h. when a competing
car burst from the pit into
his path. The resulting crash
put Honda into the hospital
and ended his racing days for
ever. Honda began making piston
rings, went back to school to
learn all he could about me
tallurgy and other tech
nical matters, and by World
War II was a successful busi
nessman. But when an Ameri
can bomb destroyed his fac
tory, Honda had to begin all
over again.
In 1947 he bought and mo
dified war - surplus radio ge
nerators which, attached to the
rear wheels of bicycles, trans
formed them into motorbikes.
These were the primitive fore
runners of today's popular
Honda motorcycles.
In 1949 Honda produced a
small machine that would tra
vel 45 m.p.h. and do 200 miles
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go for these things?
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on one gallon of gas. This
machine, his fourth motorcy
cle model, became so popular
that by 1950 Honda was mak
ing 3600 cycles a year and
by 1952 was employing 1000
men.
Other models followed; they
were a far cry from the ear
splitting, juvenile - deliquent
jobs people were accustomed
to seeing. They looked like
motorcycles but were steady,
economical and would not ex
ceed 50 m.p.h.
Later, however, Honda step
ped up the power of some
models and in 1966 became
the .first motorcycle maker ev
er to win in a . single year
the Manufacturer's Team
Prize in all solo categories -50,
125. 250. 350 and 500 c.c.
There are now more than
40 models, with ratings from
45 m.p.h to the real thun
derers which can top 110. Last
year Honda made nearly a
million and a half motorcy
cles, more than 300,000 of
which were exported to the
United States, to be ridden by
students, ministers, dowagers,
housewives, businessmen. They
would probably agree that in
starting his business years ago,
Soichiro Honda launched what
has turned out to be a most
benign cycle.
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ADTH Review
TV's 'Run For Your Life'
H
as More Life Than Most
By ERNEST H. ROBL
DTH Staff Writer
The doctors tell you that you
iictve uiic uu&siuiy iwu yeais
left to live. The whole world
is a cage. There is no way
out but to "Run For Your
Life." You try to squeeze a life
time of living into two years.
Ben Gazzara, portraying
Paul Bryan, has been on the
run for more than a year, and
with each week the question of
where this top-flight show is
going becomes more and more
pressing.
When NBC launched the se
ries in the fall of 1965, , there
were fears that it might die
of an early death. After all,
the show is based on a some
what morbid situation: A dy
ing man grasps for adventure,
knowing that each day may be
his last. '' :- ;
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show is very much alive, which
comes as no surprise to those
who have followed it closely.
While it, like all television
series, has its ups and downs
from episode to episode, the
piugicim ranges irom gooa en-
tertamment to visual poetry
when at its best. Much of the
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16. Sower
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point
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boat
20. European
22. Female
deer
25. Theater
attendant
26. Not
suitable
28. Beverage
29. Affected or
mincing'
31. Spanish,
dance
32. Continent:
abbr.
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36. Music
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France
4. Before
5. Drowse
6. Placating
7. Impudence:
colloq.
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9. Anglo
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10. Scorch
16. Form of
address
17. Close
THE DAILY
credit must of necessity go to
Gazzara, the constant in an
ever changing kalaidascope.
ON THE RUN
Gazzara portrays a young
lawyer compelled to search out
everything life has to offer, al
ways on the run, because
standing still would mean fac
ing the agonizing, inevitability
of the future. .
And so Bryan Gazzara
roams the world.
Paul Bryan is very human.
When the weight of the world
becomes too much he gets
drunk! In a way, the show
shows that life can be ecstasy
and life can be hell, and that
sometimes the two are hard to
separate.
Bryan finds an outlet for his
emotions in the world of
screaming motors and squeal
ing tires,, that, makes,, up ihe.. ,,
gran prix racing circuit.
Here and everywhere the
awareness of his fate lets Bryt
an taKe risks which other??
could not justify. And always
he is living his life to the limit
oi endurance
Then too. Brvan is adapta
ble. Robbed of his money and
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in
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31. Domesti
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34. Hodge- ,
podge
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36. Sounds,
as a cow
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stark limbs of the trees, or count the days
until final examinations. Those doubts will
disappear fast.
-Photo by Jock Lauterer
valuables he takes up the life
of a railroad bum, yet he is
equally at home in top society.
"Run For Your Life" dared
to defy the conventions of tele
visions and set its own prece
dents. Its hero is not always a hero.
Sometimes he loses in a gam
ble to save a human life, and
the audience knows what it is
like to have lost.
Almost no topic is sacro
sanct. In a recent episode Bry
an attempted to convince a
young girl drug addict to un
dergo treatment. He finally
succeeds only to have the girl
gunned down by revenge-seeking
gangster. The entire epi
sode delivered a scathing at
tack on organized gambling,
something which surely gained
the show no popularity in Ne
vada. - - -
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When the producers are un
able to jam what they want to
say into a single hour, an oc
casional episode is continued
the next week.
While the show could not
have survived without the su
perb acting of Gazzara, it also
owes much to highly polished
scripts, excellent direction and
what is probably the best pho
tography of any current tele
vision program.
One of the show's big advan
tages is that it has no regular
scriptwriter but buys stories
from a large number of writ
ers. Because of this the show
never bogs down and always
has something new to say.
The melancholy background
music, most often a single pi
ano's notes, combines with su
perb camera work to grip the
viewer and take him beyond
the limits, of the television
screen.
. Th work of Michael Ritchie
in directmg a number of re
cent episodes is particularly
noteworthy.
The near perfection of this
show has left doubts in the
minds of some viewers wheth
er the series can continue in
definitely on its high level, or
simply whether it can continue
at all, considering the fates of
other top network offerings
during some past seasons.
Among the deluge of trivia
and banality currentlv offered
on the tube, this series must
truly run for its life in the bat
tle for ratings.
One can only hope that its
life be a long one and its in
evitable death a painless one.
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way of pitching the ever-popular
high, hanging curve ball
that guarantees failure.
There's a Charlie Brown Hal
loween trick-or-treat iechnique
that attracts rocks instead of
candy.
And then there's "A Charlie
Brown Christmas" philosophy
' that wins awards and that is
rapidly making good ol' Char
lie B ro v n the ingenuous
spokesman for , those who seek
the true spirit of the holiday.
The animated color cartoon
special that marked the tele
vision debut of Charlie Brown
and the other "Peanuts" char
acters from the, popular
Charles M. Schulz syndicated
"comic strip last season will be
rebroadcast Sunday, Dec. 11
(7:00-7:30 p.m., EST), on the
CBS Television Network.
After its premiere last De
cember "A Charlie Brown
Christmas" won a George Fos
ter Peabody Award in the chil
dren's program category and
Emmy as the outstanding chil
dren's feature from members
of the Academy of Television
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posed and performed by Vmce
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Charlie Brown's search for the
real meaning of Christmas.
"A Charlie Brown Christ
mas" is a Lee Mendelson-Bill
Melendez production, in coop
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Syndicate. Mendelson is exec
utive producer.
The Peabody Award citation
paid high tribute to the spe
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cial holiday production. It
reads, in part: "It was a litt e
gem of a show that faithfully
and sensitively introduced to
television the 'Peanuts' collec
tion of newspaper characters
created by Charles M. Schulz.
'A Charlie Brown Christmas'
was a delight for the whole
family."
The voice of Charlie Brown
is interpreted by Peter Rob
bins, Christopher Shea is heard
as Linus and Tracy Stratford
as Lucy.
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