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- BUSINESS, Page 71Business NotesACCIDENTSReaping a Clue In a Cornfield
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- It was a great night for Soichiro Honda, 82, founder of the
- company that bears his name. Before an audience of 800
- auto-industry elite in Detroit last week, Honda was the first
- Japanese carmaker to be inducted into the Automotive Hall of
- Fame, where his name will join those of Henry Ford and Walter
- P. Chrysler. "As I stand here, it feels as if I am standing on
- a cloud," said Kaminari-san, or Mr. Thunder, as he is known to
- his workers. His company has put 1.4 million American-made
- Hondas on the road and sold 5.1 million imports since 1970. Said
- he: "I found doing business here much easier than in Japan. Our
- company in Ohio has been so well accepted that I believe it is
- an American company in substance."
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