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...directorates. With clerkships the top jobs offered to them by most haole firms, Hawaiians of mixed blood turned to running hui-syndicates in which one astute businessman administers the pooled resources of the members. So successful a hui manager was Chinn Ho that he cracked Hawaii's bamboo curtain and gained a toehold in the haole establishment; he was the'first Oriental named a trustee of one of Hawaii's landed estates, the huge Robinson estate, a bastion of Hawaiian conservatism, first Oriental invited to join the businessmen's Commercial Club, the first named President...
With Gallic grace, the French colonials joined in the almost weekly Laotian festivals. They range in riotousness from the spring fertility rites known as Bang Fai, when the men wave bamboo poles topped with phallic symbols and copulating puppets and the girls look on and giggle, to New Year's, when the King's elephants are gathered and lectured on good conduct. Many a Frenchman learned to play Laos' unchaperoned game of love, conducted to the music of khen pipes, and one French administrator in southern Laos chopped down all bridges into his domain once a year...
Among other new Harvard contributors are F.A. McClure, consultant on Tropical Forestry for the Maria Moors Cabot Foundation, writing on bamboo: and Ruth Dixon Turner, research associate in Malacology, dealing with the piddock, periwinkle, quahog, teredo, and whelk...
...outraged them was that 200 cows living in a large rest home maintained by Punjab state died last week of malnutrition and exposure. Two M.P.s of the right-wing, ultra Hindu Jana Sangh Party related the horrible details: a thousand cattle had been crowded together at Mattewara in flimsy bamboo sheds, sinking in mud and dung until they keeled over to provide grisly feasts for vultures and jackals. Mightily embarrassed, the state government sent its director of animal husbandry flying from Chandigarh to move 100 cows from the overcrowded rest home to another cow rest home nearby...
Frustrating at first was the search for a leading lady to lure Fletcher Christian Brando, in T. S. Eliot's words, "under the bam, under the boo, under the bamboo tree." Then one day a supple vahine named Tarita broke into spontaneous dance before Brando and Director Reed, swayed sensually to the rhythm of sharkskin drums, and extolled Brando's prowess as a godlike lover and drinker of awa, a local fermentation. Brando and Reed conferred. Soon the coconut radios of Tahiti were spreading the message that Tarita had become Hollywood's newest star...