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...immediate family since 1960-when Princess Margaret married another commoner, Antony Armstrong-Jones -commemorative stamps were issued and commemorative medallions struck. Britain showed the loving couple in a tooth-studded closeup (3½p. and 20p.). Stamps issued for such far-flung corners of the Commonwealth as Aitutaki and the Pitcairn Islands displayed Anne and Mark with heads touching and happiness, as one newspaper put it, "welling from their smiles and expressions." For the occasion, the Courage Ltd. brewery issued a "royal wedding ale"-light in color, but extra strong...
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...regards to "Adorable Aitutaki" Mr. Archie Campbell (TIME, Sept. 13) tells about the beautiful, and amiable women on this [South Pacific] island of paradise, which is governed by New Zealand. Clothing there is very scarce...
...teller of the tale of Aitutaki was Archie Campbell, onetime hard-boiled Seattle Post Intelligencer newsman, now second engineer in a Liberty ship. A world-traveled cynic, Campbell had always scoffed at South Sea legends. But now he testifies: New Zealand owns the island, but has governed it by leaving it alone. The normal population includes 2,000 Polynesians-strong, handsome men & women. Aitutaki has no commercial value and in peacetime is almost never seen by white men; now it has a holding force of blissfully happy U.S. troops. Venereal disease is unknown among the natives; the major commanding...
...overdescribe it," sighed Archie Campbell. "After the peace the War Department will have to send troops there to drag those guys home . . . it's a soldier's dream." Less explicit, less expansive than Campbell, the Pacific Islands Pilot, Vol. III, Sixth Edition, nevertheless concedes that Aitutaki's people are "hospitable and well-disposed...