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...ritual life of Dutch New Guinea's seafaring Asmat tribe. It was the last work of the museum's youngest trustee. Michael Rockefeller, 23, anthropologist son of New York's Governor, who was lost seven months ago when his frail catamaran swamped in the shark-teeming Arafura Sea off New Guinea...
...seasonal rains descended on the miasmal coast of southern New Guinea, and with them came the end of the air search for Anthropologist Michael Clark Rockefeller, 23, last seen a fortnight earlier swimming away from his capsized boat in the shark-ridden Arafura Sea (TIME, Dec. 1). Though missionaries and Papuan natives doggedly beat on through the increasingly impassable bush, the Australian rescue helicopters departed-as did Michael's father, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who, upon his arrival at Idlewild Airport, first began to use the past tense in describing his adventurous youngest son: "He knew...
...seemed an all but hopeless search. Five days earlier, on a trip between south New Guinea's coastal villages of Agats and Atsj, Mike Rockefeller's native catamaran capsized in the swelling Arafura Sea. Mike dived off to swim for help through waters infested with sharks toward a swampy shore swarming with crocodiles. After a companion who stayed with the boat was rescued, New Guinea's Dutch officials ordered a search for Michael. Nelson Rockefeller chartered a jet for $38,000, flew out to join the hunt. "I could never forgive myself," he explained, "if I didn...
...Mare Nostrum" is what the unoriginal Japanese broadcasters call the Arafura Sea, which separates Australia's north coast from the western half of New Guinea. This Jap-claimed sea, nearly 4,000 miles south of Tokyo, is half the size of the Gulf of Mexico, is dotted with some 200 small islands divided into three archipelagos. Last week Tokyo Radio claimed that Japanese troops had occupied some more of these islands. There was no one to dispute the claim. The Japanese had been inching into outposts of The Netherlands East Indies ever since they seized Timor last February. They...