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lived.

The next day we went to the pearl factory. Mr. Mikimoto was the
person who discovered how to insert a piece of mussel in one area in a
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the Inland Sea, anchored of course.

We went by hovercraft to Hiroshima, which had been rebuilt.
There was a huge steel factory by the pier. We took the bullet train to
Tokyo. The train is extremely fast so that telephone poles along the right
of way almost become a picket fence to your eyes. There are very few
stops and the stops are of a very short duration.
We stayed overnight in a skyscraper hotel in Tokyo. Jean and I
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that a simple hamburger cost over $4 – this was 1969! The next day
when we left the hotel to go to the airport, Honey and Stan pulled a gag
on us. They stood just outside the hotel doors and as we passed, they
bowed very low in Japanese fashion! We had had a thoroughly enjoy-
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Jean is a great traveling companion and we both enjoy traveling.
During the trip, we only received messages twice, once in New Delhi
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house while we were on the trip. They were both teaching school but
were able to care for Vicki, Cindi and Alice morning and night.

During our trip to Saudi Arabia, we had missed seeing two for-
mer associates, Ralph Devenney and Bill Jewell. Ralph had succeeded
me as General Superintendent of Industrial Relations in Ras Tanura. He
had progressed from there to becoming the Director of Industrial Rela-
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the Director of Industrial Relations to go to Beirut on alternate months
to meet with his counterpart in Tapline. In turn, every other month the
Tapline representative would come to meet in Saudi Arabia. Ralph and
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